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ArticleCritical care (London, England)2020

COVID-19 pneumonia: ARDS or not?

Luciano Gattinoni, Davide Chiumello, Sandra Rossi

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Article in Critical care (London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 351 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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351citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

351 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Methylene blue for COVID-19 ARDS: insights from a randomized Clinical Trial.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025
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  5. Comparison of the effect of intravenous dexamethasone and methylprednisolone on the treatment of hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a randomized clinical trial.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2022
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  9. Incentive Spirometer in COVID-19: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026
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  11. Hypoxic Status in COPD and ARDS Patients: Impact on Lipid Signature.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  14. ARDS Ventilation, The Man Behind the Evolution.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2025
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  20. Combining OJournal of critical care medicine (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Targu-Mures) · 2024
    Review

291 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Luciano GattinoniDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Göttingen, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Robert-Koch Straße 40, 37075, Göttingen, Germany. gattinoniluciano@gmail.com.
Davide ChiumelloSC Anestesia e Rianimazione, Ospedale San Paolo - Polo Universitario, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, Dipartimento di Scienze della Salute, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Sandra RossiAzienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Parma, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusClinical Laboratory TechniquesCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19COVID-19 TestingHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Tomography, X-Ray ComputedARDSCOVID-19Mechanical ventilation

Identifiers

PMID32299472
PMCPMC7160817

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