Dyspnoea and clinical outcome in critically ill patients receiving noninvasive support for COVID-19 respiratory failure: post hoc analysis of a randomised clinical trial

In non-COVID-19 acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure, the entity of dyspnoea has been associated with severity of hypoxaemia, and represents a factor predicting noninvasive ventilation (NIV) failure, the need for endotracheal intubation and mortality [1]. In #COVID19 patients, presence of moderate-to-severe dyspnoea is a marker of disease severity correlated to clinical outcomes We are grateful to all intensive care unit...