Ethnology

Mechanical ventilation

Intensive care medicine

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Emergency medicine

Engineering

Health care

Critically ill

Northern ireland

Ventilation (architecture)

Virology

Accounting

Economics

Computer science

Medical emergency

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Anesthesia

Outbreak

Business

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Mechanical engineering

Positive-Pressure Respiration

Management

Critical care nursing

Political science

Audit

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Internal medicine

Data science

Medicine

Pneumonia

Economic growth

Disease

Critical illness

Intensive care

History

Two thirds (132) of covid-19 patients who required critical care in the UK had mechanical ventilation within 24 hours of admission, an audit of patients from England, Wales, and Northern Ireland has found.The report from the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre summarised all the confirmed cases of covid-19 in critical care (199 admissions for 196 patients) up to midnight on 19 March from participating critical care units.1 Of these, 29% (57) were female and 71% (139) were male; their median age was 64.Of the …

Covid-19: most patients require mechanical ventilation in first 24 hours of critical care