The effect of a novel extracorporeal cytokine hemoadsorption device on IL-6 elimination in septic patients: A randomized controlled trial

• Dirk Schädler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dirk Schädler, Christine Pausch

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dirk.schaedler@uksh.de

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5745-4797

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• Christine Pausch ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dirk Schädler, Christine Pausch

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Daniel Heise,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre of Anaesthesiology, Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Andreas Meier-Hellmann,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, HELIOS Klinikum, Erfurt, Germany

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• Jörg Brederlau,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany

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• Norbert Weiler,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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• Gernot Marx,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Intensive Care and Intermediate Care, RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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• Christian Putensen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Claudia Spies,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Charité Mitte and Campus Charité Virchow-Klinikum, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Achim Jörres,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine I - Nephrology, Transplantation & Medical Intensive Care, University Witten/Herdecke, Medical Center Cologne-Merheim, Cologne, Germany

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• Michael Quintel,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre of Anaesthesiology, Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Christoph Engel,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• John A. Kellum,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Martin K. Kuhlmann

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Vivantes Klinikum im Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany

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