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Monday, 6 July 2020

PEEP levels in COVID-19 pneumonia



by Vasiliki Tsolaki, Ilias Siempos, Eleni Magira, Stelios Kokkoris, George E. Zakynthinos and Spyros Zakynthinos

Research letter: Critical Care volume 24, Article number: 303 (2020)

To the Editor:
Recently, the Surviving Sepsis Campaign COVID-19 guidelines and ATS suggest that a ventilatory strategy complying with the ARDSnet protocol should be applied to manage COVID-19 pneumonia [1,2,3]. However, “COVID-19 lung” pathophysiology seems to be divergent from the “ARDS lung”; hence, heart-lung interactions may be more pronounced than initially considered [23]…

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