Vitamin-D levels and intensive care unit outcomes of a cohort of critically ill COVID-19 patients.

Objectives: The pattern of global COVID-19 has caused many to propose a possible link between susceptibility, severity and vitamin-D levels. Vitamin-D has known immune modulatory effects and deficiency has been linked to increased severity of viral infections.

Methods: We evaluated patients admitted with confirmed SARS-COV-2 to our hospital between March-June 2020.

Conscious prone positioning during non-invasive ventilation in COVID-19 patients: experience from a single centre.

Critically ill patients admitted to hospital following SARS-CoV-2 infection often experience hypoxic respiratory failure and a proportion require invasive mechanical ventilation to maintain adequate oxygenation. The combination of prone positioning and non-invasive ventilation in conscious patients may have a role in improving oxygenation. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of prone positioning in spontaneously ventilating patients receiving non-invasive ventilation admitted to the intensive care.