Rationale for Prolonged Corticosteroid Treatment in the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Caused by Coronavirus Disease 2019

Crit Care Explor. 2020 Apr 29;2(4):e0111. doi: 10.1097/CCE.0000000000000111. eCollection 2020 Apr.

Jesús Villar^{1

2

3}, Marco Confalonieri⁴, Stephen M Pastores⁵, G Umberto Meduri^{6

7}

¹ CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
² Multidisciplinary Organ Dysfunction Evaluation Research Network (MODERN), Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
³ Keenan Research Center for Biomedical Science at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Pulmonology Department University Hospital of Cattinara, Trieste, Italy.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
⁶ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN.
⁷ Memphis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Memphis, TN.

No abstract available

Keywords: acute respiratory distress syndrome; coronavirus disease 2019; corticosteroids; intensive care unit; mechanical ventilation; mortality.