European Registry for Hemadsorption in Sepsis With the Seraph Filter

Hemadsorption was introduced in everyday clinical practice before the COVID-19 pandemic. The efficacy of hemadsorption removal of endotoxins and cytokines is still, by some, controversial due to the fact that most of the studies were performed in a small number of patients with very different diagnoses, comorbidities and disease severity. Furthemore, some studies enrolled patients over a prolonged period of time with very high SOFA scores and multi-organ failure where it is difficult to expect any significant effect of any kind of organ support therapy. The COSA registry reported that the treatment of COVID-19 patients with Seraph 100 was well tolerated and observed lower mortality in the registry when compared to calculated mortality. The primary aim of this observational prospective, multi-center, multistate web-based registry is to define the effectiveness and outcome of Seraph 100 treatment(s), investigate possible advantages of early targeted treatment and to set indications/inclusion criteria for the treatment of ICU septic patients with the method of hemoadsorption.