Chest X-ray at Emergency Admission and Potential Association with Barotrauma in Mechanically Ventilated Patients: Experience from the Italian Core of the First Pandemic Peak
Pietro Andrea Bonaffini, Francesco Stanco, Ludovico Dulcetta, Giancarla Poli, Paolo Brambilla, Paolo Marra, Clarissa Valle, Ferdinando Luca Lorini, Mirko Mazzoleni, Beatrice Sonzogni, Fabio Previdi, Sandro Sironi · 2023
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Description
Pietro Andrea Bonaffini and co-authors look back at the first pandemic peak in Italy to ask whether a chest X-ray score can warn of lung damage from breathing machines. Their 2023 study covers one hundred seventeen patients with COVID-19 lung infection who entered intensive care for mechanical ventilation.
Doctors scored each admission X-ray with the Brixia score, which grades how much of the lung looks diseased. Thirty-eight patients later developed barotrauma, air leaking where it should not, in forms such as collapsed lung or air around the heart. Those patients had entered with higher scores, and the score stayed linked to risk after analysis. Illness severity and days on gentler breathing support also flagged risk.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Pietro Andrea Bonaffini, Francesco Stanco, Ludovico Dulcetta, Giancarla Poli, Paolo Brambilla, Paolo Marra, Clarissa Valle, Ferdinando Luca Lorini, Mirko Mazzoleni, Beatrice Sonzogni, Fabio Previdi, Sandro Sironi |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |