MedPageToday – Better survival for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome when fully vaccinated. Being fully vaccinated was associated with better survival for patients intubated for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) owing to COVID-19, a small multicenter study from Greece showed.
In a cohort involving 265 consecutive patients needing intubation for COVID-19 ARDS, mortality was 61.5% for those who were fully vaccinated versus 68.2% for controls who were not fully vaccinated, a significant difference after adjusting for confounders (HR 0.55, 95% CI 0.32-0.94, P=0.03), reported Ilias Siempos, MD, of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, and colleagues.