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cord-329215-awxfetdj	Carter, Chris	COVID-19 Disease: invasive ventilation	2020-06-01		.txt	text/plain	5519	328	44	Abstract This article focuses on the critical care nurse's role in the management of patients with COVID-19 who require invasive ventilation in order to improve outcomes and prevent complications. Where respiratory failure requires emergency tracheal intubation (passing of an endotracheal tube (ETT) into the trachea) for patients with COVID-19, it is a high-risk procedure, increasing viral load to healthcare workers and other patients. 5 Due to the rapid increase in numbers of patients, and the acute deterioration associated with severe COVID-19 infection, it is now frequently performed outside of the critical care unit by specially formed intubation teams. Prior to commencing invasive ventilation, the critical care team needs to be aware of the patient's normal lung function whenever possible so that parameters can be set to deliver appropriate and realistic targets for oxygenation. The increasing numbers of severe COVID-19 patients requiring invasive ventilation is likely to place a critical demand on oxygen supplies which may lead to supply failure.	./cache/cord-329215-awxfetdj.txt	./txt/cord-329215-awxfetdj.txt