Why More Covid-19 Patients Are Surviving the ICU | Elemental

Why More Covid-19 Patients Are Surviving the ICU | Elemental

Why more patients with COVID-19 survive intensive care

Survival rates have significantly improved for intensive-care patients since the start of the pandemic. The heroic efforts of health-care workers — sometimes at the cost of their own well-being — have cut death rates by 10%, according to one global analysis. They have ramped up collaboration, fine-tuned the use of ventilators and identified effective treatments and interventions to help to save more people with the most-severe cases of COVID-19.

Elemental | 8 min readReference: Anaesthesia paper