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

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine, ARDS and ECMO Centre, Cologne-Merheim Hospital, Kliniken Der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Witten/Herdecke University Hospital, Ostmerheimer Strasse 200, 51109, Cologne, Germany. Christian.Karagiannidis@uni-wh.de.
• ² Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital; University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• ³ Faculty of Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine, ARDS and ECMO Centre, Cologne-Merheim Hospital, Kliniken Der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Witten/Herdecke University Hospital, Ostmerheimer Strasse 200, 51109, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁶ Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Center for Acute Respiratory Failure, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA.