Exploring the therapeutic role of early heparin administration in ARDS management: a MIMIC-IV database analysis.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateOne author (Ling-Xi Xiao) who has passed the “Protecting Human Research Participants” examination, could access the database and was responsible for data extraction (Record ID: 56441415). MIMIC-IV database used in the present study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards (IRB) of Institutional Review Boards of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was given a waiver of informed consent. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding This work is supported by the Chongqing Science and Health Joint Medical Research Project (No. 2023MSXM091), the Chongqing Natural Science Foundation (No. cstc2020jcyj-msxmX0008), and the Senior Medical Talents Program of Chongqing for Young and Middle-Aged (No. 2020219)."