Very late intubation in COVID-19 patients: a forgotten prognosis factor?
Laurent Camous,
Jean-David Pommier,
Frederic Martino,
Benoît Tressieres,
Alexandre Demoule,
Marc Valette
Affiliations
Laurent Camous
Intensive Care Unit, Guadeloupe University Hospital
Jean-David Pommier
Intensive Care Unit, Guadeloupe University Hospital
Frederic Martino
Intensive Care Unit, Guadeloupe University Hospital
Benoît Tressieres
Antilles-Guyane Clinical Investigation Center, Inserm CIC 1424, Guadeloupe University Hospital
Alexandre Demoule
AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire APHP-Sorbonne Université, site Pitié-Salpêtrière, Service de Médecine Intensive - Réanimation (Département R3S)
Marc Valette
Intensive Care Unit, Guadeloupe University Hospital
Abstract Description of all consecutive critically ill COVID 19 patients hospitalized in ICU in University Hospital of Guadeloupe and outcome according to delay between steroid therapy initiation and mechanical ventilation onset. Very late mechanical ventilation defined as intubation after day 7 of dexamethasone therapy was associated with grim prognosis and a high mortality rate of 87%.
