Publications by authors named "Howard Soh"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to determine if initiating prone positioning ventilation early improves survival rates for critically ill COVID-19 patients suffering from respiratory failure.
- Researchers analyzed data from a multicenter study involving over 2,300 patients in ICUs across the U.S., comparing those who were proned within two days of admission to those who were not.
- Out of the patients studied, 30% were proned early, with an overall survival rate of 43.5%, indicating that early proning might positively impact outcomes in this patient group.
Objective: To explore the relationship between hyperglycemia in the presence and absence of diabetes mellitus (DM) and adverse outcomes in critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Methods: The study included 133 patients with COVID-19 admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) at an urban academic quaternary-care center between March 10 and April 8, 2020. Patients were categorized based on the presence or absence of DM and early-onset hyperglycemia (EHG), defined as a blood glucose >180 mg/dL during the first 2 days after ICU admission.