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5. Consider early intubation
All the drugs listed are experimental and undergoing trials (2). In our view, early intubation should be considered and non-invasive ventilation and high-flow nasal oxygen should be used sparingly (3). This is because non-invasive ventilation and high-flow nasal oxygen likely increase the infectivity of COVID-19 by aerosolizing the patient’s respiratory secretions. The patient was intubated with a limited number of people in the room in PAPR. He spent only two days receiving mechanical ventilation with a HEPA filter on the exhalational limb of the ventilator. He was extubated and rapidly improved.
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