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Editorial
. 2021 Feb 17;57(2):2004247.
doi: 10.1183/13993003.04247-2020. Print 2021 Feb.

Noninvasive strategies in COVID-19: epistemology, randomised trials, guidelines, physiology

Martin J Tobin  1 , Amal Jubran  1 , Franco Laghi  1
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Editorial

Noninvasive strategies in COVID-19: epistemology, randomised trials, guidelines, physiology

Martin J Tobin et al. Eur Respir J. .

Abstract

Two recent ERJ articles demonstrate dramatic benefit with CPAP in COVID-19 patients, highlighting problems with the landmark trial of CPAP (and related guidelines) and illustrating the danger of believing that trials capture the truth of clinical practice https://bit.ly/3pVp78e

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: M.J. Tobin reports that he receives royalties for two books on critical care published by McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York. Conflict of interest: A. Jubran reports a grant from National Institute of Nursing Research (R01-NR016055) during the conduct of the study. Conflict of interest: F. Laghi reports a grant from Veterans Administration Research (1 I01 RX002803-01A1) during the conduct of the study.

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