Six-month respiratory outcomes and exercise capacity of COVID-19 acute respiratory failure patients treated with continuous positive airway pressure.
Sarah DamantiGiuseppe Alvise RamirezEnrica Paola BozzoloPatrizia Rovere-QueriniRebecca De LorenzoCristiano MagnaghiRaffaella ScottiGiuseppe Di LuccaAlessandro MarinosciSilvia StradaGaetano Di TerlizziGiordano VitaliSabina MartinenghiNicola CompagnoneGiovanni LandoniMoreno TresoldiPublished in: Internal medicine journal (2021)
Robust and frail patients with COVID-19 ARF treated with CPAP outside the intensive care unit setting had good respiratory parameters and exercise capacity at 6-month follow up, although more severe patients had slightly poorer respiratory performance compared with patients with higher PaO2 /FiO2 and lower FI.
Keyphrases
- respiratory failure
- positive airway pressure
- obstructive sleep apnea
- sleep apnea
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- high intensity
- newly diagnosed
- end stage renal disease
- coronavirus disease
- sars cov
- ejection fraction
- mechanical ventilation
- physical activity
- respiratory tract
- resistance training
- drug induced
- early onset
- type diabetes
- metabolic syndrome
- acute respiratory distress syndrome