Impact of major bleeding and thrombosis on 180‐day survival in patients with severe COVID‐19 supported with veno‐venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the United Kingdom: a multicentre observational study

Bleeding and thrombosis are major complications in patients supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). In this multicentre observational study of 152 consecutive patients (≥18 years) with severe COVID-19 supported by veno-venous (VV) ECMO in four UK commissioned centres during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (1 March to 31 May 2020), we assessed the incidence of major bleeding and thrombosis and their association with...