Lung mechanics and hypoxemia in COVID-19 patients with ARDS
Researchers have created a dataset of COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome to help characterize lung compliance and hypoxemia, which may help administer better treatments.
The severity of COVID-19, the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), ranges from no symptoms in some patients to severe disease, including death in others. Some patients require mechanical ventilation for respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). How COVID-19 related ARDS is different from other ARDS is still a subject of debate. Previous studies have small sample sizes and often do not have data on lung mechanics.