90 Day Outcomes of COVID-19 Patients in European ICUs

90 Day Outcomes of COVID-19 Patients in European ICUs

This communication delineates outcomes in COVID-19 patients in the context of ARDS severity, ventilatory management, and variables associated with mortality on a 90-day follow-up for subgroups of patients after ICU admission.... read more

COVID-19: Critical Care and Airway Management Issues

COVID-19: Critical Care and Airway Management Issues

Among patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), up to one-quarter require intensive care unit (ICU) admission. Profound hypoxemic respiratory failure from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)... read more

Prone Position in Intubated, Mechanically Ventilated COVID-19 Patients

Prone Position in Intubated, Mechanically Ventilated COVID-19 Patients

During the COVID-19 pandemic, prone position has been widely adopted to treat mechanically ventilated patients with respiratory failure. The majority of patients improved their oxygenation during prone position, most likely... read more

Effects of Ventilatory Rescue Therapies on the Cerebral Oxygenation of COVID-19 Patients

Effects of Ventilatory Rescue Therapies on the Cerebral Oxygenation of COVID-19 Patients

A new study by Masimo published in Critical Care evaluated the impact of a variety of rescue therapies on the systemic and cerebral oxygenation of mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients suffering from acute respiratory... read more

NeuroRx Announced Completion of Data Analysis for COVID-19 Treatment Respiratory Failure

NeuroRx Announced Completion of Data Analysis for COVID-19 Treatment Respiratory Failure

NeuroRx, Inc. announced completion of top line data analysis of the 60-day results in its phase 2b/3 clinical trial, conducted under FDA Fast Track Designation, of ZYESAMI™ (aviptadil acetate) for the treatment of critically-ill... read more

Cerecor Significantly Reduced Respiratory Failure and Mortality in Phase 2 Clinical Trial in Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 ARDS

Cerecor Significantly Reduced Respiratory Failure and Mortality in Phase 2 Clinical Trial in Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 ARDS

Final analysis inclusive of the 60-day safety update in the randomized placebo-controlled study demonstrated CERC-002 was statistically significant in reducing respiratory failure and mortality at Day 28 in patients hospitalized... read more

Efficacy of Serum Angiotensin II Levels in Prognosis of Patients with COVID-19

Efficacy of Serum Angiotensin II Levels in Prognosis of Patients with COVID-19

The serum angiotensin II levels decrease significantly in patients with coronavirus disease 2019, and this decrease is correlated with lung damage. There was no statistical significance between the serum angiotensin II... read more

No Significant Difference between Tocilizumab and Placebo in Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia Patients

No Significant Difference between Tocilizumab and Placebo in Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia Patients

In this randomized trial involving hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia, the use of tocilizumab did not result in significantly better clinical status or lower mortality than placebo at 28 days. In this... read more

Temporal Changes in the Epidemiology, Management, and Outcome from ARDS

Temporal Changes in the Epidemiology, Management, and Outcome from ARDS

The frequency of and outcome from ARDS remained relatively stable between 2002 and 2012. Plateau pressure > 29 cmH2O and driving pressure > 14 cmH2O on the first day of mechanical ventilation but not tidal volume > 8... read more

Physiological dead space and alveolar ventilation in ventilated infants

Physiological dead space and alveolar ventilation in ventilated infants

Prematurely born infants with pulmonary disease have a higher dead space than term controls, which may influence the optimum level during volume-targeted ventilation. A prospective study of mechanically ventilated infants... read more

Causes and Timing of Death in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients

Causes and Timing of Death in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients

Mortality rate of critically ill COVID-19 patients is high, especially in those requiring invasive mechanical ventilation. However, the causes and the timing of death of patients admitted to the ICU for SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia... read more

Insight into ECMO, mortality and ARDS

Insight into ECMO, mortality and ARDS

ARDS is a severe disease with a high mortality rate despite ECLS therapy. Although endpoints and timing of the evaluations differed from those of the CESAR and EOLIA studies and the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization... read more

Consequences of COVID-19 in discharged patients

Consequences of COVID-19 in discharged patients

At 6 months after acute infection, COVID-19 survivors were mainly troubled with fatigue or muscle weakness, sleep difficulties, and anxiety or depression. Patients who were more severely ill during their hospital stay... read more

Nebulised heparin for patients with or at risk of ARDS

Nebulised heparin for patients with or at risk of ARDS

In patients with or at risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), nebulised heparin did not improve self-reported performance of daily physical activities, but was well tolerated and exploratory outcomes suggest... read more

Meralgia Paresthetica: COVID-19-associated ARDS treated with prone positioning

Meralgia Paresthetica: COVID-19-associated ARDS treated with prone positioning

Prone positioning is one of the few interventions in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) which has a proven mortality reduction. Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, severe ARDS cases have sharply... read more

Subtle Presentations of Shock in the ED Setting

Subtle Presentations of Shock in the ED Setting

The patient was a 2-year-old female with a history of allergy to peanuts who was brought to the emergency department by her mother because of a complaint of allergic reaction. Twenty minutes prior to arrival, the patient... read more

Harnessing a Pioneering Cell Therapy Treatment for COVID-19 Patients with ARF

Harnessing a Pioneering Cell Therapy Treatment for COVID-19 Patients with ARF

A world-leading UK-wide trial supported by NIHR is offering a pioneering cell therapy treatment for patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) caused by COVID-19. The groundbreaking study, led by experts at Queen's... read more