Complete countrywide mortality in COVID patients receiving ECMO in Germany throughout the first three waves of the pandemic

• Christian Karagiannidis,
• Arthur S. Slutsky,
• Thomas Bein,
• Wolfram Windisch,
• Steffen Weber-Carstens,
• Daniel Brodie

Affiliations

Christian Karagiannidis

Department of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine, ARDS and ECMO Centre, Cologne-Merheim Hospital, Kliniken Der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Witten/Herdecke University Hospital

Arthur S. Slutsky

Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael’s Hospital; University of Toronto

Thomas Bein

Faculty of Medicine, University of Regensburg

Wolfram Windisch

Department of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine, ARDS and ECMO Centre, Cologne-Merheim Hospital, Kliniken Der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Witten/Herdecke University Hospital

Steffen Weber-Carstens

Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Daniel Brodie

Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Center for Acute Respiratory Failure, New York-Presbyterian Hospital