Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A critical care perspective beyond China

Affiliations

¹ Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Instituto Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Clinical Research/Epidemiology in Pneumonia and Sepsis (CRIPS), Vall d'Hebron Institut of Research (VHIR), Barcelona, Spain; Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Division, CHU Nîmes, University Montpellier-Nîmes, Nîmes, France. Electronic address: jrello@crips.es.
² Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Instituto Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Clinical Research/Epidemiology in Pneumonia and Sepsis (CRIPS), Vall d'Hebron Institut of Research (VHIR), Barcelona, Spain.
³ Département Anesthésie Réanimation, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France; Junior Group of the French Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (SFAR), Paris, France.
⁴ Critical Care Department, General Hospital Papageorgiou, Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁵ Division of Intensive Care, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶ School of Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.

Editorial

Jordi Rello et al. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2020 Apr.

. 2020 Apr;39(2):167-169.

doi: 10.1016/j.accpm.2020.03.001. Epub 2020 Mar 3.

¹ Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Instituto Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Clinical Research/Epidemiology in Pneumonia and Sepsis (CRIPS), Vall d'Hebron Institut of Research (VHIR), Barcelona, Spain; Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Division, CHU Nîmes, University Montpellier-Nîmes, Nîmes, France. Electronic address: jrello@crips.es.
² Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Instituto Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Clinical Research/Epidemiology in Pneumonia and Sepsis (CRIPS), Vall d'Hebron Institut of Research (VHIR), Barcelona, Spain.
³ Département Anesthésie Réanimation, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France; Junior Group of the French Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (SFAR), Paris, France.
⁴ Critical Care Department, General Hospital Papageorgiou, Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁵ Division of Intensive Care, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶ School of Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.

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Keywords: Coronavirus; Influenza; Intensive care medicine; Mechanical ventilation; Outbreak; Pneumonia; SARS-COV-2.

Comment on

Clinical course and outcomes of critically ill patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a single-centered, retrospective, observational study.
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