Sixty-Day Mortality Among 520 Italian Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients According to the Adopted Ventilatory Strategy in the Context of an Integrated Multidisciplinary Clinical Organization: A Population-Based Cohort Study.
Antonella PotalivoJonathan MontomoliFrancesca FacondiniGianfranco SansonLuigi Arcangelo Lazzari AgliTiziana PerinFrancesco CristiniEnrico CavagnaRaffaella De GiovanniCarlo BiagettiIlaria PanziniCinzia RavaioliMaria Maddalena BitondoDaniela GuerraGiovanni GiulianiElena MosconiSonia GuarinoElisa MarchionniGianfilippo GangitanoIlaria ValentiniLuca GiampaoloFrancesco MuratoreGiuseppe NardiPublished in: Clinical epidemiology (2020)
This study provided a population-based estimate of the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in a severely affected Italian province. A similar 60-day mortality risk was found for patients undergoing immediate IMV and those intubated after an NIV trial with favorable outcomes after prolonged IMV.