Aspirin Use, Mechanical Ventilation, and Inhospital Mortality in Coronavirus Disease 2019: Are We Missing Something?

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¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Singapore, ravivalarramya@gmail.com.
³ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong.
⁴ The National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, India.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

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Muthapillai Senthilnathan et al. Anesth Analg. 2021.

. 2021 Aug 1;133(2):e31-e33.

doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000005621.

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Singapore, ravivalarramya@gmail.com.
³ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong.
⁴ The National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, India.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

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Aspirin Use Is Associated With Decreased Mechanical Ventilation, Intensive Care Unit Admission, and In-Hospital Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019.
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