High In-Hospital Mortality Rate in Patients with COVID-19 Receiving Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Germany: A Critical Analysis

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2021 Oct 15;204(8):991-994. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202105-1145LE.

Authors

Christian Karagiannidis^{1

2}, Stephan Strassmann^{1

2}, Michaela Merten^{1

2}, Thomas Bein³, Wolfram Windisch^{1

2}, Patrick Meybohm⁴, Steffen Weber-Carstens⁵

Affiliations

¹ ARDS and ECMO Centre Cologne-Merheim Cologne, Germany.
² Witten/Herdecke University Witten, Germany.
³ University of Regensburg Regensburg, Germany.
⁴ University Hospital Wuerzburg Wuerzburg, Germany.
⁵ Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin Berlin, Germany.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / epidemiology
COVID-19 / therapy*
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / methods*
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Germany / epidemiology
Hospital Mortality / trends
Humans
Length of Stay / trends
Male
Middle Aged
Retrospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2*