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Cytokines tend to break things in critical illness.Pro-inflammatory cytokines cause vasodilation.Anti-inflammatory cytokines cause immunosupression.Inventing a way to get rid of those cytokines sounds like a good idea, right?Cytosorb has been on out the market and trialed in sepsis, ARDS, cardiac surgery or recovery after cardiac arrest in the ICU.It sounds expensive, but does it work?A …

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