Critically ill patients with COVID-19 ‘don’t fare worse than others’
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Patients with COVID-19 requiring mechanical ventilation are no more likely than other critically ill ventilated patients to have a legacy of poor physical or psychological functioning, a study shows.
Critical care researchers, led by Professor Carol Hodgson from Monash University, had hypothesised that patients with acute respiratory failure due to COVID-19 might be more likely to die or develop new disabilities.