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Comment
. 2020 Aug:97:233-235.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.033. Epub 2020 Jun 15.

Correlation between arterial blood gas and CT volumetry in patients with SARS-CoV-2 in the emergency department

Gianni Turcato  1 , Luca Panebianco  2 , Arian Zaboli  3 , Christoph Scheurer  2 , Dietmar Ausserhofer  4 , Anton Wieser  2 , Norbert Pfeifer  3
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Comment

Correlation between arterial blood gas and CT volumetry in patients with SARS-CoV-2 in the emergency department

Gianni Turcato et al. Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Aug.

Abstract

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    The severity of SARS-CoV-2 patients is difficult to quickly assess in the ED.

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    The ABG test is a quick and easy tool that can help identify more severe patients.

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    CT cannot be used on all suspected SARS-CoV-2 infected patients admitted in ED.

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    The CT volumetry correlates well with the values of severity reported by the ABG test.

Keywords: Arterail blood gas; COVID-19; COVID-19 pneumonia; CT volumetry; Emergency department; Emergency medicine; SARS-CoV-2.

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Restricted cubic spline model of the dose-response relationship between the PiO2:FiO2 values recorded on patient arrival in the ED and the percentage of the volume of lung parenchyma involved in the inflammatory process in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. The black line represents the pooled probability of the percentage of lung parenchyma involved in the inflammatory process linked to PiO2:FiO2 values and the grey lines indicate the 95% confidence interval.
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