Nigel Chee

TL;DR: The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and Intensive care Society Guideline Development Group have used GRADE methodology to make the following recommendations for the management of adult patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).

TL;DR: The International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC) WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol UK (CCP-UK) study as discussed by the authors is an ongoing, prospective cohort study recruiting inpatients from 260 hospitals in England, Scotland, and Wales, conducted by the ISARIC Coronavirus Clinical Characterization Consortium.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of inhaled corticosteroid use in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 with underlying respiratory conditions was examined. But, the results were limited to patients aged 50 years and older and not for those with chronic pulmonary disease.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used multilevel logistic regression and survival models to explore associations between these outcomes and in-hospital complications, age, and pre-existing comorbidities.

TL;DR: In this paper, a prospective, multicentre cohort study included patients of any age admitted to hospital with a confirmed or highly suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection leading to COVID-19 between Jan 17 and Aug 10, 2020, and secondary outcomes were disease severity at presentation, admission to critical care, receipt of invasive ventilation, non-invasive ventilation, use of supplementary oxygen, and acute kidney injury.