Authors
Dr. Anoop P1, Dr. Anil Sathyadas1
1MDICU, Department of Anaesthesiology, Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram
Abstract
for ventilator support includes Acute Respiratory Distress
Syndrome, hemodynamic instability and sometimes
severe pneumonia.3
Clinical syndromes associated with covid-19 includes
• Mild illness
• Pneumonia
• Severe pneumonia
• Acute respiratory distress syndrome(ARDS)
• Sepsis
• Septic shock
WHO defines hypoxemia as saturation below 90%. The
Surviving sepsis campaign for COVID 19 recommends
oxygen therapy when the saturation is less than 90%.It
also recommended that ‘mechanical ventilated patients
with COVID-19 should be managed similarly as any other
case of acute respiratory failure in the ICU’. But an article
published by Gattinoni et al in intensive care medicine
journal explains how this disease is in many ways different
from conventional ARDS.4