Fogagnolo, Alberto http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2737-0162
Grasso, Salvatore http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0287-0232
Dres, Martin http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9191-6089
Gesualdo, Loreto http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4861-0911
Murgolo, Francesco
Morelli, Elena
Ottaviani, Irene
Marangoni, Elisabetta http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9081-9946
Volta, Carlo Alberto http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3533-6121
Spadaro, Savino http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5027-5318
Article History
Received: 29 July 2020
Accepted: 9 December 2020
First Online: 1 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standard
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: Prospective, observational pilot study performed in a COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and a mixed medical-surgical ICU at University Hospital of Ferrara, Italy. The study was approved by the ethic committee (approval number 339/2020). We included consecutive patients with SARS-COV-2 ARDS or ARDS undergoing mechanical ventilation. Exclusion criteria were: diagnosis of AKI before ICU admission, unsatisfactory ultrasound visualization, arrhythmia, renal replacement therapy and denied consent. All patients included in the SARS-COV-2 ARDS group had laboratory-confirmed COVID-19.
: The study was approved by the ethic committee (approval number 339/2020).
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