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Jan 2026
Noninvasive ventilation use and ICU mortality in COVID-19-related acute respiratory failure: a retrospective cohort study
Highlights • NIV use increased from 2.4% to 77.8% across the two study periods.• Intubation rates remained high and did not differ significantly between periods.• Second-period patients had more severe hypoxemia and higher crude ICU mortality.• Absence of NIV use was associated with a lower adjusted hazard of ICU morta...
J. Martini, F. X. de Araújo, Gabriela Machado Costa et al.
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