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A real-time platform for monitoring microvascular health of COVID-19 patients in ICUs – News-Medical.Net
As COVID-19 spread worldwide in early 2020, the avalanche of patients requiring admission into intensive care units (ICUs) suddenly became overwhelming to the healthcare…
As COVID-19 spread worldwide in early 2020, the avalanche of patients requiring admission into intensive care units (ICUs) suddenly became overwhelming to the healthcare systems.
About 10% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients entered these ICUs in the first wave, and most of them required invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) due to respiratory failure. Of note, mortality among patients requiring this procedure was extremely high, ranging from 35 to 50%.
One of the main features of the disease is the…
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