TY - JOUR T1 - Conservative management of COVID-19 associated hypoxaemia JF - ERJ Open Research JO - erjor DO - 10.1183/23120541.00204-2021 VL - 7 IS - 2 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 - 2021/04/01 UR - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/7/2/00204-2021.abstract N2 - With great interest we read the article by Voshaar et al. [1] reporting data from a retrospective analysis of 78 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients treated with or without invasive mechanical ventilation. The authors conclude that avoiding invasive mechanical ventilation by allowing permissive hypoxaemia was superior to current treatment standards and guidelines. Overall mortality in this cohort was 7.7% (six out of 78), but 50% (four out of eight) of the patients supported with invasive mechanical ventilation eventually died [1].This correspondence argues that data presented previously cannot justify a novel approach for treating hypoxic patients with severe #COVID19 https://bit.ly/3dLaPlk ER -