Improved outcomes over time for adult COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome or acute respiratory failure

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 16; no. 6; p. e0253767
• Main Authors: Yeates, Eric O, Nahmias, Jeffry, Chinn, Justine, Sullivan, Brittany, Stopenski, Stephen, Amin, Alpesh N, Nguyen, Ninh T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Public Library of Science 25.06.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adults; Biology and Life Sciences; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Demographics; Demography; Diabetes; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Hypertension; Intubation; Length of stay; Long term health care; Mechanical ventilation; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mortality; Oxygen; Oxygen requirement; Oxygen requirements; Oxygenation; Pandemics; Patient positioning; Patients; Research and Analysis Methods; Respiratory distress syndrome; Respiratory failure; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Supervision; Surgery; Trends; Ventilation; Ventilators; United States; United States > US; California

COVID-19's pulmonary manifestations are broad, ranging from pneumonia with no supplemental oxygen requirements to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with acute respiratory failure (ARF). In response, new oxygenation strategies and therapeutics have been developed, but their large-scale...