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About 15% of hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 patients require ICU admission, and most (80%) of these require invasive mechanical ventilation. Lung-protective ventilation in coronavirus disease 2019 acute respiratory failure may result in severe respiratory acidosis without significant hypoxemia. Low-flow extracorporeal Co
removal can facilitate lung-protective ventilation and avoid the adverse effects of severe respiratory acidosis. The objective was to evaluate the efficacy of extracorporeal Co
removal using the Hemolung Respiratory Assist System in correcting severe respiratory acidosis in mechanically ventilated coronavirus disease 2019 patients with severe acute respiratory failure.

Retrospective cohort analysis of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 mechanically ventilated with severe hypercapnia and respiratory acidosis and treated with low-flow extracorporeal Co
removal.

Eight tertiary ICUs in the United States.

Adult patients supported with the Hemolung Respiratory Assist System
removal using the Hemolung Respiratory Assist System to improve respiratory acidosis in patients with severe hypercapnic respiratory failure due to coronavirus disease 2019.
In this retrospective case series of 29 patients, we have demonstrated efficacy of extracorporeal Co2 removal using the Hemolung Respiratory Assist System to improve respiratory acidosis in patients with severe hypercapnic respiratory failure due to coronavirus disease 2019.
The recent conflicting data on the mortality benefit of neuromuscular blocking agents in acute respiratory distress syndrome and the potential adverse effects of continuous neuromuscular blocking agent necessitates that these medications should be used judiciously with dose reduction in mind. The aims of the study were to improve the process of care by provider education of neuromuscular blocking agent titration and monitoring and to determine the impact of clinical endpoint based neuromuscular blocking agent titration protocol.

We conducted a proof-of-concept historically controlled study of protocol-based intervention standardizing paralytic monitoring and titration using clinical variables. Education of the protocol was provided to ICU staff via bedside teaching and workshops. The primary outcomes were the time to reach goal paralysis and cumulative neuromuscular blocking agent dose. Phenformin Secondary outcomes included maintenance of deeper sedation (Richmond Agitation and Sedation Scale -5) prior to neuromusc reduced drug utilization while continuing to achieve benefit without causing adverse effects.
To describe sedative and analgesic drug utilization in a cohort of critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 and compare standard sedation with an alternative approach using inhaled isoflurane.

This was a retrospective cohort study designed to compare doses of sedatives between ICU patients receiving standard IV sedation and patients receiving mixed sedation including inhaled isoflurane. Data were obtained from electronic medical records.

ICU at large academic medical center where mechanical ventilation was delivered with Draeger Apollo (Draeger Medical, Telford, PA) anesthesia machines.

Consecutive adult patients (≥ 18 yr) with confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 admitted to ICU between April 2, 2020, and May 4, 2020.

None.

Thirty-five mechanically ventilated patients were included in the study, with a mean (sd) age of 59.4 (12.8) years. Twenty-three patients (65.7%) were men. Seventeen patients (48.6%) received standard IV sedation, whereas 18 (51.4%) also received isoflurane. The mean duration of mechanical ventilation (sd) was 23.3 (11.6) days in the standard sedation group and 23.8 (12.5) days in the isoflurane group. Mean (sd) duration of isoflurane exposure was 5.61 (2.99) days, representing 29.1% of total sedation time (sd, 20.4). Cumulative opioid exposure did not differ between the standard sedation and isoflurane sedation groups (mean morphine milligram equivalent 6668 [sd, 1,346] vs 6678 [sd, 2,000] mg). However, the initiation of isoflurane in patients was associated with decreased utilization of propofol (mean daily amount 3,656 [sd, 1,635] before vs 950 [sd, 1,804] mg during isoflurane) and hydromorphone (mean daily amount 48 [sd, 30] before vs 23 [sd, 27] mg).

In the subjects that received isoflurane, its use was associated with significant decreases in propofol and hydromorphone infusions.
In the subjects that received isoflurane, its use was associated with significant decreases in propofol and hydromorphone infusions.
Coronavirus disease 2019 continues to spread worldwide with high levels of morbidity and mortality. We performed anticoronavirus immunoglobulin G profiling of critically ill coronavirus disease 2019 patients to better define their underlying humoral response.

Blood was collected at predetermined ICU days to measure immunoglobulin G with a research multiplex assay against four severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 proteins/subunits and against all six additionally known human coronaviruses.

Tertiary care ICU and academic laboratory.

ICU patients suspected of being infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 had blood collected until either polymerase chain reaction testing was confirmed negative on ICU day 3 (coronavirus disease 2019 negative) or until death or discharge if the patient tested polymerase chain reaction positive (coronavirus disease 2019 positive).

None.

Age- and sex-matched healthy controls and ICU patients who were either coronavirus disease 2019 positivs with multiplex assays may be useful for pathogen identification, patient cohorting, and guiding convalescent plasma therapy.
Critically ill coronavirus disease 2019 patients exhibited anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 immunoglobulin G, whereas serologic responses to non-severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 antigens were weak or absent. Detection of human coronavirus immunoglobulin G against the different immunogenic structural proteins/subunits with multiplex assays may be useful for pathogen identification, patient cohorting, and guiding convalescent plasma therapy.
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