COVID-19 pneumonia: phenotype assessment requires bedside tools

What for us was more striking was the remarkable dissociation between compliance and hypoxemia in L patients [7], when some of them, because of either the natural progression of the disease or the lack of prevention of possible patient self-inflicted lung injury, shift to the Type H, which qualifies as typical ARDS. Gattinoni L, Caironi P, Cressoni M, Chiumello D, Ranieri VM, Quintel M, Russo S, Patroniti N, Cornejo R, Bugedo G. Lung recruitment in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome. Pan C, Chen L, Lu C, Zhang W, Xia JA, Sklar MC, Du B, Brochard L, Qiu H. Lung recruitability in SARS-CoV-2 associated acute respiratory distress syndrome: a single-center, observational study.