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ReviewRespiratory medicine2020

Pharmacological management of COVID-19 patients with ARDS (CARDS): A narrative review.

Maria Gabriella Matera, Paola Rogliani, Luigino Calzetta, Mario Cazzola

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Review in Respiratory medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Corticosteroids for COVID-19: worth it or not?Molecular biology reports · 2022
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  7. COVID-19 drugs in aquatic systems: a review.Environmental chemistry letters · 2022
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  16. Comparing the impact of Hydroxychloroquine based regimens and standard treatment on COVID-19 patient outcomes: A retrospective cohort study.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Maria Gabriella MateraUnit of Pharmacology, Dept. Experimental Medicine, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.
Paola RoglianiUnit of Respiratory Medicine, Dept. Experimental Medicine, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy.
Luigino CalzettaUnit of Respiratory Disease and Lung Function Dept. Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Mario CazzolaUnit of Respiratory Medicine, Dept. Experimental Medicine, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy. Electronic address: mario.cazzola@uniroma2.it.
University of Rome Tor Vergata · ITUniversity of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" · ITUniversity of Parma · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is highly infectious. It has been highlighted that if not expertly and individually managed with consideration of the vasocentric features, a COVID-19 patient with an acute respiratory distress syndrome (CARDS) may eventually develop multiorgan failure. Unfortunately, there is still no definite drug for CARDS that is capable of reducing either short-term or long-term mortality and no specific treatments for COVID-19 exist right now. In this narrative review, based on a selective literature search in EMBASE, MEDLINE, Scopus, The Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and Google Scholar and ClinicalTrials.gov, we have examined the emerging evidence on the possible treatment of CARDS. Although numerous pharmacologic therapies to improve clinical outcomes in CARDS have been studied also in clinical trials, none have shown efficacy and there is great uncertainty about their effectiveness. There is still no recommendation for the therapeutic use of any specific agent to treat CARDS because no drugs are validated to have significant efficacy in clinical treatment of COVID-19 patients in large-scale trials. However, there exist a number of drugs that may be useful at least in some patients. The real challenge now is to link the right patient to the right treatment.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralRespiratory Distress SyndromeAntiviral AgentsBetacoronavirusCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentHumansSARS-CoV-2Treatment OutcomeAntiviral AgentsARDSCARDSCOVID-19Pharmacological therapy

Identifiers

PMID32795902
PMCPMC7402220
OpenAlexW3046517782

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