1. Risk factors for mortality in patients with COVID-19 needing extracorporeal respiratory support
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Patricia Santa Teresa, Eduard Argudo, Elena Sandoval, Camilo Bonilla, Luis Chiscano, Ricardo Gimeno, Maria Santos Martinez-Martinez, Gloria Renedo, Héctor Villanueva-Fernández, Manuel Alfonso García, María Paz Fuset, Maria Victoria Boado, Pablo Coto Millán, Roberto Roncon-Albuquerque, Jorge Duerto, Pablo Ruiz de Gopegui, Sergi Martinez, Phillip Fortuna, Stephani María Luna, Vanesa Gómez, Daniel Vidal Pérez, Joaquín Colomina, Jordi Riera, Pablo Blanco-Schweizer, Pedro Eduardo Silva, Pilar Ricart, Alfredo González-Pérez, Helena Pérez-Chomón, Roberto Voces, Aaron Blandino Ortiz, Jose E. Naranjo, Emilio Rodríguez-Ruiz, Marta Garcia, Ana Paula Vaz, J. Veganzones, Sara Alcántara, and Carlos Albacete
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,ARDS ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,medicine.medical_treatment ,MEDLINE ,Disease ,Extracorporeal ,Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation ,Risk Factors ,Pandemic ,medicine ,Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ,Research Letter ,Humans ,In patient ,Pandemics ,Retrospective Studies ,Respiratory Distress Syndrome ,business.industry ,SARS-CoV-2 ,MEMBRANE-OXYGENATION ,COVID-19 ,medicine.disease ,DISTRESS-SYNDROME ,Emergency medicine ,business ,Respiratory Insufficiency - Abstract
Series describing the evolution of patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) secondary to COVID-19 and supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) during the first wave of the pandemic have reported mortalities ranging from 30 to 60% [1, 2]. More recent publications have demonstrated a trend towards a higher mortality in COVID-19 patients receiving support in later periods of the pandemic, even though the overall mortality of the disease seems lower [3, 4]. The reasons for this difference are not clear. Statistical analysis was carried out in the Statistics and Bioinformatics Unit (UEB) Vall d'Hebron Hospital Research Institute (VHIR). The following practitioners provided care for the study patients
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- 2022