Protracted course of coronavirus disease with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome: a case report.

Kyohei MiyamotoTakafumi YonemitsuRikako TanakaTsuyoshi NakashimaMami ShibataRyosuke FunahashiKeiko YamasakiMario YamadaKaori TamotoKeiichiro AkamatsuMachiko NishioHiroki YamaueSeiya Kato

Published in: Acute medicine & surgery (2020)

We report a protracted case of COVID-19 in a critically ill patient in Japan. Although prone ventilation could contribute to treating hypoxemia, its efficacy in preventing mortality from COVID-19 is unknown.

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