Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Due to COVID-19

The aim of this study is to characterize patients in the Post-Intensive-Care-Syndrome (PICS) outpatient clinic based on routine data and to evaluate their treatment outcome over the course of their treatment. For this purpose, data sets from approx. 40 patients who were treated in the intensive care unit subsequently evaluated in the PICS outpatient clinic between March 27, 2020, and May 6, 2024, will be analyzed.

To determine whether a strategy of adding venovenous ECMO to mechanical ventilation, as compared to mechanical ventilation alone, increases the number of intensive care free days at day 60, in patients with moderate to severe acute hypoxic respiratory failure.