Outcomes in Patients with Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure Secondary to COVID-19 Treated with Noninvasive Respiratory Support versus Invasive Mechanical Ventilation

Purpose: The goal of this study was to compare noninvasive respiratory support to invasive mechanical ventilation as the initial respiratory support in COVID-19 patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure.

Methods: All patients admitted to a large healthcare network with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure associated with COVID-19 and requiring respiratory support were eligible for inclusion. We compared patients treated initially with noninvasive respiratory support (noninvasive positive pressure ventilation by facemask or high flow nasal oxygen) with patients treated initially with invasive mechanical ventilation. The primary outcome was time-to-in-hospital death analyzed using an inverse probability of treatment weighted Cox model adjusted for potential confounders. Secondary outcomes included unweighted and weighted assessments of mortality, lengths-of-stay (intensive care unit and hospital) and time-to-intubation.

Results: Over the study period, 2354 patients met inclusion criteria. Nearly half (47%) received invasive mechanical ventilation first and 53% received initial noninvasive respiratory support. There was an overall 38% in-hospital mortality (37% for invasive mechanical ventilation and 39% for noninvasive respiratory support). Initial noninvasive respiratory support was associated with an increased hazard of death compared to initial invasive mechanical ventilation (HR: 1.61, p < 0.0001, 95% CI: 1.33 - 1.94). However, patients on initial noninvasive respiratory support also experienced an increased hazard of leaving the hospital sooner, but the hazard ratio waned with time (HR: 0.97, p < 0.0001, 95% CI: 0.96 - 0.98).

Conclusion: These data show that the COVID-19 patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure initially treated with noninvasive respiratory support had an increased hazard of in-hospital death.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Enthalten in:

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences - (2022) vom: 20. Dez.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Fisher, Julia M [VerfasserIn]
Subbian, Vignesh [VerfasserIn]
Essay, Patrick [VerfasserIn]
Pungitore, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
Bedrick, Edward J [VerfasserIn]
Mosier, Jarrod M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
High-flow nasal oxygen
Mechanical ventilation
Noninvasive respiratory support
Preprint
Respiratory failure

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Date Revised 19.10.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1101/2022.12.19.22283704

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM351087532