Coronavirus and ARDS17 Feb 2020 11:42
A recent descriptive study published in The Lancet3 on the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak in Wuhan, China reports that 17% of the 99 patients with 2019-nCoV pneumonia developed Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ("ARDS") and 11% worsened in a short period of time and died of multiple organ failure. 19% of patients in the study received corticosteroids, a treatment option no longer recommended by the WHO