Mortality of intubated patients with COVID-19 during first and subsequent waves: a meta-analysis involving 363,660 patients from 43 countries.

Eleni XourgiaDimitrios Eleftherios KatsarosNikoleta A XixiVasiliki TsolakiChristina RoutsiSpyros G ZakynthinosAnastasia KotanidouIlias I Siempos

Published in: Expert review of respiratory medicine (2022)

The robust finding of this meta-analysis suggests that mortality of intubated patients with COVID-19 did not improve over time. Future research should target this group of patients to further optimize their management.

Keyphrases

systematic review
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prognostic factors
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current status
meta analyses