Mortality in mechanically ventilated patients in middle-income countries: a call for action

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¹ UNIOESTE, CEPETI Center for Study and Research in Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital Evangélico Mackenzie, Curitiba 80730-150, Brazil. Electronic address: pericles.duarte@uol.com.br.
² Federal University of Paraná, CEPETI Center for Study and Research in Intensive Care Medicine, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.

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Pericles A D Duarte et al. Lancet Glob Health. 2022 Feb.

. 2022 Feb;10(2):e163-e164.

doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00522-2. Epub 2021 Dec 13.

¹ UNIOESTE, CEPETI Center for Study and Research in Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital Evangélico Mackenzie, Curitiba 80730-150, Brazil. Electronic address: pericles.duarte@uol.com.br.
² Federal University of Paraná, CEPETI Center for Study and Research in Intensive Care Medicine, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.

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Geoeconomic variations in epidemiology, ventilation management, and outcomes in invasively ventilated intensive care unit patients without acute respiratory distress syndrome: a pooled analysis of four observational studies.
Pisani L, Algera AG, Neto AS, Azevedo L, Pham T, Paulus F, de Abreu MG, Pelosi P, Dondorp AM, Bellani G, Laffey JG, Schultz MJ; ERICC study investigators; LUNG SAFE study investigators; PRoVENT study investigators; PRoVENT-iMiC study investigators. Pisani L, et al. Lancet Glob Health. 2022 Feb;10(2):e227-e235. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00485-X. Epub 2021 Dec 13. Lancet Glob Health. 2022. PMID: 34914899 Free PMC article.

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