Associations of body mass index with ventilation management and clinical outcomes in invasively ventilated patients with ards related to covid-19—insights from the provent-covid study

• Main Authors: Renée Schavemaker, Marcus J. Schultz, Wim K. Lagrand, Eline R. van Slobbe-Bijlsma, Ary Serpa Neto, Frederique Paulus
• Other Authors: Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences
• Format: Article
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/78358
• Institution: Mahidol University

We describe the practice of ventilation and mortality rates in invasively ventilated normal-weight (18.5 ≤ BMI ≤ 24.9 kg/m2), overweight (25.0 ≤ BMI ≤ 29.9 kg/m2), and obese (BMI > 30 kg/m2) COVID-19 ARDS patients in a national, multicenter observational study, performed at 22 intensive care unit...