Acute Crit Care.  2021 Feb;36(1):81-84. 10.4266/acc.2020.00689.

Pneumothorax rate in intubated patients with COVID-19

• Capaccione KM
• D’souza B
• Leb J
• Luk L
• Duong J
• Tsai WY
• Navot B
• Dumeer S
• Mohammed A
• Salvatore MM

• KMID: 2513260
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4266/acc.2020.00689

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  Figure 1. Selection criteria for patients included in this study. IRB: Institutional Review Board; COVID-19: coronavirus disease 2019.

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  Figure 2. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-positive patients with small (dashed arrow) and moderate pneumothoraces (solid arrow) (A, B), and large pneumothorax (solid arrow) (C, D) in the coronal and axial planes.

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