Polito, Angelo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4686-726X
Fleig, Marcel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0831-7884
Kelly-Geyer, Janet https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1093-4822
Hoskote, Aparna https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4760-1199
Dalton, Heidi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9443-3533
Brierley, Joe https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0919-6882
Thiagarajan, Ravi R. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-1693
Supady, Alexander https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4056-3652
Swol, Justyna https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2903-092X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Paracelsus Medical University
Article History
Received: 22 June 2025
Revised: 30 August 2025
Accepted: 9 November 2025
First Online: 2 December 2025
Declarations
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: The EuroELSO Review Board review deemed the study exempt, as individual subjects could not be identified.
: Ravi R Thiagarajan reports a research grant from US Department of Defense (Clinical Trial Award for RCT on RBC Transfusion on ECMO) and lecture fees from Society of Critical Care Medicine and Extracorporeal Life Support Organization, all outside the submitted work. Alexander Supady reports research grants and lecture fees from CytoSorbents, lecture fees from AstraZeneca and Getinge and travel support and consulting fees from ARTCLINE, all outside the submitted work. Justyna Swol reports editorial board membership as associate editor of Perfusion. All other authors declare no competing interests that might be perceived to influence this paper.