Article
Hospital saturation and risk of death without receiving mechanical ventilation in hospitalized COVID-19 patients: a city-wide analysis
2021-06-15
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> Pneumonia is the hallmark of severe COVID-19, with supplemental oxygen requirement being the main indication for hospitalization. Refractory hypoxemia in these patients requires invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) otherwise, death is imminent. In places with a high disease burden, availability of critical care experts, beds, or resources is challenged and many patients could die without recei...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b96eaf80-8721-5308-a1db-478b374e7a1a
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.06.13.21258844
