COVID-19 in critically ill patients in the Seattle region — Case series

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 382, Issue 21, 2020, Pages 2012-2022

  Bhatraju, Pavan K ^a   Ghassemieh, Bijan J ^a   Nichols, Michelle ^a   Kim, Richard ^a   Jerome, Keith R ^b,d   Nalla, Arun K ^b,d   Greninger, Alexander L ^b,d   Pipavath, Sudhakar ^c   Wurfel, Mark M ^a   Evans, Laura ^a   Kritek, Patricia A ^a   West, T Eoin ^a   Luks, Andrew ^a   Gerbino, Anthony ^e   Dale, Chris R ^f   Goldman, Jason D ^b,f   O’Mahony, Shane ^f   Mikacenic, Carmen ^a  

^a Divisions of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; COUGHING; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; ASTHMA; BETACORONAVIRUS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PANDEMIC; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SHOCK; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; WASHINGTON; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

GLUCOCORTICOID;

AGED; ASTHMA; BETACORONAVIRUS; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SHOCK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WASHINGTON;

EID: 85084963370     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2004500     Document Type: Article

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