Background: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the practice of intubation for hypoxemic respiratory failure secondary to presumed COVID ARDS has shifted from earlier to later intubation at our hospital. Patients are now intubated for respiratory fatigue rather than for only hypoxemia. Timing of intubation has not been associated with change in mortality based on one recent [...]

Background: ARDS incidence in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia varies from 15-42%; between 5-20% of patients with hospitalization criteria received mechanical ventilation (1-3). Prone positioning demonstrated mortality benefits for patients with Severe ARDS (sARDS) with lung injury, but its use in patient COVID-19 is not clear (4-6). ARDS protocol (ARDSp) is recommended by ATS and The [...]