Some Patients Are More Equal Than Others: Variation in Ventilator Settings for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

As coronavirus disease 2019 is a novel disease, treatment strategies continue to be debated. This provides the intensive care community with a unique opportunity as the population of coronavirus disease 2019 patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation is relatively homogeneous compared with other ICU populations. We hypothesize that the novelty of coronavirus disease 2019 and the uncertainty over its similarity with noncoronavirus disease 2019 acute respiratory distress syndrome resulted in substantial practice variation between hospitals during the first and second waves of coronavirus disease 2019 patients.

Design

Multicenter retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Twenty-five hospitals in the Netherlands from February 2020 to July 2020, and 14 hospita

SUBMITTER: Dam TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8522869 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature