Characteristics, treatment, outcomes and cause of death of invasively ventilated patients with COVID-19 ARDS in Milan, Italy.
Conclusions: Despite multiple advanced critical care interventions, COVID-19 ARDS was associated with prolonged ventilation and high short term mortality. Older age and pre-admission hypertension were key mortality risk factors.
Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT04318366.
PMID: 32353223 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Critical Care and Resuscitation - Category: Intensive Care Tags: Crit Care Resusc Source Type: research
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