Publications by authors named "Claudio Pissaia"
Article Synopsis
- A study compared two weaning strategies for intubated COVID-19 patients experiencing acute respiratory failure: early extubation with immediate non-invasive ventilation (NIV) versus conventional weaning with spontaneous breathing trials (SBT).
- 121 patients were analyzed, revealing that early extubation reduced the duration of invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) to an average of 9 days compared to 11 days in the standard group (p=0.034).
- The early extubation strategy also led to significantly fewer extubation failures (18.2% vs. 45.5%) and reintubations (18.2% vs. 40%) without impacting trache
Aim: We aimed to characterise a large population of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with moderate-to-severe hypoxaemic acute respiratory failure (ARF) receiving continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) outside the intensive care unit (ICU), and to ascertain whether the duration of CPAP application increased the risk of mortality for patients requiring intubation.
Methods: In this retrospective, multicentre cohort study, we included adult COVID-19 patients, treated with CPAP outside ICU for hypoxaemic ARF from 1 March to 15 April, 2020. We collected demographic and clinical data, including CPAP therapeutic goal, hospital length of stay and 60-day in-hospital mortality.