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cord-302997-39o08tt1	Ceruti, S.	Reduced mortality and shorten ICU stay in SARS-COV-2 pneumonia: a low PEEP strategy	2020-05-08		.txt	text/plain	3557	197	53	We implemented a "care map", as a standardized multidisciplinary approach to improve patients monitoring using: uniform patient selection for ICU admission, a low-PEEP strategy and a pharmacologic strategic thromboembolism management. To date, ten patients (24%) died, four (9.7%) received mechanical ventilation, two were transferred to another hospital and 25 (60.9%) were discharged from ICU after a median of nine days. Deep vein thrombosis, PE, Ventilator-Associated-Pneumonia (VAP) and Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) have been the main complications arose in patients admitted to ICU: DVTs and PEs were defined as suspected with an increase in serum D-dimer values over 1,500 ng/ml, while they were considered as confirmed by ultrasound or CT-scan positive finding, defined according to current clinical standards. In all, this suggests that a less traumatic approach to ventilation by low PEEP and avoiding unnecessary MV by delaying ICU admission can be of help in managing COVID-19 patients and in improving survival.	./cache/cord-302997-39o08tt1.txt	./txt/cord-302997-39o08tt1.txt