Parasternal intercostal thickening at hospital admission: a promising indicator for mechanical ventilation risk in subjects with severe COVID-19

• Published in: Journal of clinical monitoring and computing Vol. 37; no. 5; pp. 1287 - 1293
• Main Authors: Helmy, Mina A., Milad, Lydia M., Hasanin, Ahmed M., Mostafa, Maha, Mannaa, Asser H., Youssef, Marianne M., Abdelaziz, Mahmoud, Alkonaiesy, Ramy, Elshal, Mamdouh Mahmoud, Hosny, Osama
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.10.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Anesthesiology; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Critical Care Medicine; Health Sciences; Intensive; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mortality; Multivariate analysis; Original Research; Oxygenation; Respiratory rate; Statistics for Life Sciences; Thickening; Ventilation; Viral diseases; COVID-19; P; F; Ultrasound; Mechanical ventilation; Parasternal intercostal thickening; ROX index; ratio; PaO2/FIO2 ratio

We aimed to evaluate the ability of parasternal intercostal thickening fraction (PIC TF) to predict the need for mechanical ventilation, and survival in subjects with severe Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). This prospective observational study included adult subjects with severe COVID-19. The fo...