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Keywords

Assisted Circulation; Critical Care; Critical Illness; Emergency Medicine; Extracorporeal Circulation; Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; Hypercapnia; Intensive Care; Intensive Care Units; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Research interests

Extracorporeal Gas Exchange (veno-venous, veno-arterial, hybrid ECMO, pumpless and pump-driven ECCO2-R), ARDS, hyparcapnic/hypoxic lung failure, Sepsis

Techniques, methods & infrastructure

Adult Critical Care Medicine including different ECLS strategies (veno-venous, veno-arterial, arterio-venous, veno-veno-arterial), several cannulation techniques and modes of operation (pumpless, pump-driven) depending on therapy goal (oxygenation, decarboxylation, hemodynamic support, combined respiratory and circulatory support).

Selected publications

1. Hermann, A. et al. (2019) ‘ECMO without anticoagulation in patients with disease‐related severe thrombocytopenia: Feasible but futile?’, Artificial Organs, 43(11), pp. 1077–1084. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aor.13514.
2. Hermann, A. et al., 2015. Determinants of gas exchange during extracorporeal CO2 removal using a novel pump-driven venovenous gas exchange system in a minimally invasive setting. Critical Care, 19(Suppl 1), p.P274. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc14354.
3. Hermann, A. et al., 2015. A novel pump-driven veno-venous gas exchange system during extracorporeal CO2-removal. Intensive Care Medicine, 41(10), pp.1773-1780. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-3957-0.
4. Hermann, A. et al., 2014. First Experience With a New Miniaturized Pump-Driven Venovenous Extracorporeal CO2 Removal System (iLA Activve). ASAIO Journal, 60(3), pp.342–347. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/mat.0000000000000073.
5. Hermann, A. et al., 2019. Lipocalin-2 levels in acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Experimental Hematology. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.exphem.2019.05.001.