Extracorporeal organ support during viral outbreaks
In a recent Spotlight article published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Claudio Ronco, Paolo Navalesi and Jean Louis Vincent discuss the possible role of extracorporeal organ support therapies in the intensive care unit during a viral outbreak, like the current COVID-19.
W have summarized the clinical experiences currently available in literature with the use of Polymyxin B hemoperfusion in patients with viral infection (H1N1-H5N1 influenza) who developed severe pneumonia or ARDS.