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01-12-2020 | Acute Respiratory Distress-Syndrome | Editorial
COVID-19-related and non-COVID-related acute respiratory distress syndrome: two sides of the same coin?
Authors:
Audrey de Jong, Oriol Roca, Claude Guérin
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 12/2020
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Excerpt
In the setting of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic that has hit ICUs worldwide Ferrando et al. [
1] recently published a prospective multicentre study conducted in 36 Spanish ICUs. The study focused on consecutive patients with COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (COVID ARDS) who required invasive mechanical ventilation. Among the wealth of important and carefully recorded information provided by this study, the present editorial focuses on anticipated differences between COVID ARDS and non-COVID-19-related ARDS (non-COVID ARDS), on tidal volume setting, adjunct therapies and on methodological aspects. …