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Comment
. 2025 Dec 16;29(1):525.
doi: 10.1186/s13054-025-05776-y.

Letter to the editor regarding 'Liberal or restrictive transfusion for veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patients: a target trial emulation using the OBLEX study data'

Tessa A van der Meer  1 , Senta Jorinde Raasveld  1   2 , Marcella C A Müller  1 , Alexander P J Vlaar  1 , Jimmy Schenk  3   4   5
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Letter to the editor regarding 'Liberal or restrictive transfusion for veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patients: a target trial emulation using the OBLEX study data'

Tessa A van der Meer et al. Crit Care. .
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Declarations. Ethics approval and consent to participate: Not applicable. Consent for publication: Not applicable. Competing interests: APJ Vlaar and MCA Müller are principal investigators of the TREC-trial (NCT06560164). APJ Vlaar is the chair of the ESICM Transfusion Task Force and on the Advisory board Sanquin National Blood Bank. The Amsterdam UMC has received a consulting fee and grant from CSL Behring. All other authors have no competing interests.

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