TY - JOUR T1 - Conservative management of COVID-19 associated hypoxemia JF - ERJ Open Research JO - erjor DO - 10.1183/23120541.00204-2021 SP - 00204-2021 AU - Alexander Supady AU - Philipp M. Lepper AU - Hendrik Bracht AU - Onnen Moerer AU - Ralf M. Muellenbach AU - Guido Michels AU - Mascha O. Fiedler AU - Armin Kalenka AU - Matthias Kochanek AU - Haitham Mutlak AU - Guy Danziger AU - Sebastian Muenz AU - Dirk Lunz AU - Sabrina Hoersch AU - Dawid Staudacher AU - Tobias Wengenmayer AU - Viviane Zotzmann Y1 - 2021/01/01 UR - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/early/2021/04/08/23120541.00204-2021.abstract N2 - With great interest we read the article by Voshaar et al. reporting data from a retrospective analysis of 78 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients treated with or without invasive mechanical ventilation, respectively. The authors conclude that avoiding invasive mechanical ventilation by allowing permissive hypoxemia was superior to current treatment standards and guidelines. Overall mortality in this cohort was 7.7% (6/78), but 50% (4/8) of the patients supported with invasive mechanical ventilation eventually died [1].Data presented previously cannot justify a novel approach for treating hypoxic patients with severe COVID-19. ER -