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. 2021 Feb 23;25(1):79.
doi: 10.1186/s13054-021-03492-x.

Causes and timing of death in critically ill COVID-19 patients

Damien Contou  1 , Radj Cally  2 , Florence Sarfati  2 , Paul Desaint  2 , Megan Fraissé  2 , Gaëtan Plantefève  2
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Causes and timing of death in critically ill COVID-19 patients

Damien Contou et al. Crit Care. .
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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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a Distribution of each cause of death among 73 critically ill COVID-19 patients dying during the ICU stay (VAP ventilator-associated pneumonia). b Kaplan–Meier survival estimates following ICU admission and median delay [quartile 1–quartile 3] (in days) between ICU admission and death according to each cause of death. In both panels, deaths from refractory respiratory failure, shock with multi-organ failure, cardiac and neurologic causes figure in blue, red, orange and grey, respectively
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