Initiation of ECMO in patients with COVID-19- related ARDS does not increase blood markers of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) or IL-8

Affiliations

• ¹ UC San Diego Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, and Physiology, La Jolla, CA. Electronic address: modish@health.ucsd.edu.
• ² UC San Diego Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, and Physiology, La Jolla, CA.
• ³ UC San Diego Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, La Jolla, CA.
• ⁴ UC San Diego Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, and Physiology, La Jolla, CA; VA San Diego Healthcare System, Pulmonary Critical Care Section, San Diego, CA.
• ⁵ UC San Diego Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Critical Care, La Jolla, CA.