Baseline Characteristics and Outcomes of 1591 Patients Infected With SARS-CoV-2 Admitted to ICUs of the Lombardy Region, Italy

Giacomo Grasselli , Alberto Zangrillo , Alberto Zanella , Giacomo Grasselli , Alberto Zangrillo , Alberto Zanella , Massimo Antonelli , Luca Cabrini , Antonio Castelli , Danilo Cereda , Antonio Coluccello , Giuseppe Foti , Roberto Fumagalli , Giorgio Antonio Iotti , Nicola Latronico , Ferdinando Luca Lorini , Stefano Merler , Giuseppe Natalini , Alessandra Piatti , Marco Vito Ranieri , Anna Mara Scandroglio , Enrico Storti , Maurizio Cecconi , Antonio Artigas , Emiliano Agosteo , Valentina Alaimo , Giovanni Albano , A. Albertin , Armando Alborghetti , Giorgio Aldegheri , Benvenuto Antonini , Enrico Barbara , Nicolangela Belgiorno , Mirko Belliato , Annalisa Benini , Enrico Beretta , Leonardo Bianciardi , Stefano Bonazzi , Massimo Borelli , Enrico Boselli , Nicola Bronzini , Carlo Capra , Livio Carnevale , Giampaolo Casella , Gianpaolo Castelli , E Catena , Sergio Cattaneo , Davide Chiumello , Silvia Cirri , Giuseppe Citerio , Sergio Colombo , Davide Coppini , Alberto Corona , Paolo Cortellazzi , Elena Costantini , Remo Daniel Covello , Gianluca De Filippi , Marco Poli , Federica Mura , Giulia Evasi , Raquel Fernandez-Olmos , Andrea Forastieri Molinari , Marco Galletti , G Gallioli , Marco Gemma , Paolo Gnesin , Lorenzo Grazioli , Massimiliano Greco , Paolo Gritti , Paolo Grosso , Luca Guatteri , Davide Guzzon , Fabiola Harizay , Roberto Keim , Giovanni Landoni , Thomas Länger , Andrea Lombardo , Annalisa Malara , Elena Malpetti , Francesco Marino , Giovanni Marino , Maurizio Mazzoni , Guido Merli , Antonio Micucci , Francesco Mojoli , Stefano Muttini , Adriana Nailescu , Mauro Panigada , Paolo Perazzo , Giovanni Battista Perego , Nicola Petrucci , Angelo Pezzi , Alessandro Protti , Danilo Radrizzani , Maurizio Raimondi , Marco Ranucci , Frank Rasulo , Mario Riccio , Roberto J. Rona , Claudio Roscitano , Patrizia Ruggeri , Antonello Sala , Giuseppe Sala
2020 JAMA 5,742 citations

Abstract

In this case series of critically ill patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 admitted to ICUs in Lombardy, Italy, the majority were older men, a large proportion required mechanical ventilation and high levels of PEEP, and ICU mortality was 26%.

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MedicineIntensive care unitIntensive careComorbidityEmergency medicinePandemicPediatricsCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Internal medicineIntensive care medicineDiseaseInfectious disease (medical specialty)

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AdolescentAdultAge DistributionAgedAged80 and overBetacoronavirusCOVID-19ComorbidityCoronavirus InfectionsCritical CareCritical IllnessFemaleHospital MortalityHospitalizationHumansIntensive Care UnitsItalyMaleMiddle AgedPandemicsPneumoniaViralPositive-Pressure RespirationRespirationArtificialRetrospective StudiesSARS-CoV-2Sex DistributionYoung Adult

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2020
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Volume
323
Issue
16
Pages
1574-1574
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5742
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Giacomo Grasselli, Alberto Zangrillo, Alberto Zanella et al. (2020). Baseline Characteristics and Outcomes of 1591 Patients Infected With SARS-CoV-2 Admitted to ICUs of the Lombardy Region, Italy. JAMA , 323 (16) , 1574-1574. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.5394

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10.1001/jama.2020.5394
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32250385
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