Clinical features, ventilatory management, and outcome of ARDS caused by COVID-19 are similar to other causes of ARDS

• Published in: Intensive care medicine Vol. 46; no. 12; pp. 2200 - 2211
• Main Authors: Ferrando, Carlos, Suarez-Sipmann, Fernando, Mellado-Artigas, Ricard, Hernández, María, Gea, Alfredo, Arruti, Egoitz, Aldecoa, César, Martínez-Pallí, Graciela, Martínez-González, Miguel A., Slutsky, Arthur S., Villar, Jesús
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2020; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Adult; Analysis of Variance; Anesthesiology; Body weight; China; Coronavirus; Coronaviruses; Correlation of Data; COVID-19; COVID-19 - physiopathology; COVID-19 - therapy; Critical Care Medicine; Emergency Medicine; Female; Germany; Humans; Intensive; Intensive care units; Lungs; Male; Maneuvers; Mechanical ventilation; Medical research; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Medicine, Experimental; Middle Aged; Mortality; NCT; NCT04368975; Original; Outcome; Pain Medicine; Patient positioning; Pediatrics; Pharynx; Pneumology/Respiratory System; Pressure; Prone position; Proportional Hazards Models; Prospective Studies; Respiration, Artificial - methods; Respiratory Distress Syndrome - physiopathology; Respiratory Distress Syndrome - therapy; Respiratory system; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Severity of Illness Index; Spain; Statistics, Nonparametric; United Kingdom; Ventilation; Ventilators; Spain; United Kingdom; China; Germany; Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Coronavirus; Mechanical ventilation; Outcome

Purpose The main characteristics of mechanically ventilated ARDS patients affected with COVID-19, and the adherence to lung-protective ventilation strategies are not well known. We describe characteristics and outcomes of confirmed ARDS in COVID-19 patients managed with invasive mechanical ventilati...