Dyspnoea and clinical outcome in critically ill patients receiving noninvasive support for COVID-19 respiratory failure: post hoc analysis of a randomised clinical trial

Luca S Menga; Domenico Luca Grieco; Tommaso Rosà; Melania Cesarano; Luca Delle Cese; Cecilia Berardi; Gabriele Pintaudi; Eloisa Sofia Tanzarella; Salvatore L Cutuli; Gennaro De Pascale; Salvatore Maurizio Maggiore; Massimo Antonelli

doi:10.1183/23120541.00418-2021

Dyspnoea and clinical outcome in critically ill patients receiving noninvasive support for COVID-19 respiratory failure: post hoc analysis of a randomised clinical trial

ERJ Open Res. 2021 Oct 4;7(4):00418-2021. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00418-2021. eCollection 2021 Oct.

Authors

Luca S Menga^{1

2}, Domenico Luca Grieco^{1

2}, Tommaso Rosà^{1

2}, Melania Cesarano^{1

2}, Luca Delle Cese^{1

2}, Cecilia Berardi^{1

2}, Gabriele Pintaudi^{1

2}, Eloisa Sofia Tanzarella^{1

2}, Salvatore L Cutuli^{1

2}, Gennaro De Pascale^{1

2}, Salvatore Maurizio Maggiore^{3

4}, Massimo Antonelli^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Emergency, Intensive Care Medicine and Anesthesia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
² Istituto di Anestesiologia e Rianimazione, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
³ University Dept of Innovative Technologies in Medicine and Dentistry, Gabriele d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy.
⁴ Dept of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Emergency, S.S. Annunziata Hospital, Chieti, Italy.

Abstract

In #COVID19 patients, presence of moderate-to-severe dyspnoea is a marker of disease severity correlated to clinical outcomes https://bit.ly/3Bp2G1b.