Evolving changes in mortality of 13,301 critically ill adult patients with COVID-19 over 8 months.
Pedro KurtzLeonardo S L BastosLeila F DantasFernando G ZampieriMarcio SoaresSilvio HamacherJorge I F SalluhFernando Luiz Cyrino OliveiraPublished in: Intensive care medicine (2021)
Age and mortality rates have declined over the first 8 months of the pandemic. The use of NIRS as the first respiratory support measure was associated with survival, but causal inference is limited by the observational nature of our data.