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. 2023 Jun;49(6):685-688.
doi: 10.1007/s00134-023-07042-7. Epub 2023 Apr 12.

A humanitarian's perspective of critical care in conflict zones

James S Lee  1   2 , Aurélie Godard  3
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A humanitarian's perspective of critical care in conflict zones

James S Lee et al. Intensive Care Med. 2023 Jun.
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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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a Common critical care pathologies, b proportion of Intensive Care Unit admissions (n = 7397), and c mortality rates from 11 hospitals in 7 countries with an active conflict in 2021. *106 patients received invasive mechanical ventilation in two trauma hospitals’ ICU (n = 1357 total trauma cases from all hospitals). **65 patients received invasive mechanical ventilation in one COVID-19 hospital’s ICU and 335 patients received non-invasive ventilation in two COVID-19 hospitals' ICU (n = 951 total COVID-19 cases from all hospitals)
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