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Extracorporeal CO2 removal and renal replacement therapy in acute severe respiratory failure in COVID‐19 pneumonia: Case report

Ignacio Gacitúa, A. Frías, M. E. Sanhueza, S. Bustamante, R. Cornejo, Andrea Salas, Ximena Guajardo, Katherine Torres et al.

Seminars in dialysis, 2021

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Abstract

The COVID‐19 pandemic significates an enormous number of patients with pneumonia that get complicated with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), some of them with refractory hypercapnia and hypoxemia that need mechanical ventilation (MV). Those patients who are not candidate to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), the extracorporeal removal of CO2 (ECCO2R) can allow ultra protective MV to limit the transpulmonary pressures and avoid ventilatory induced lung injury (VILI).

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