Elizalde GJJ

Language: English
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Page: 173-175
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In any clinical situtation physiopathology is of paramount importance in critical care. The disease caused by the new virus SARS-CoV-2, imposes important challenges and requires an understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms involved in it as a means to design better management and life support protocols. This process is currently under construction, but progress has been made, which is summarized below.
The final path of severe COVID-19 pneumonia is like that of many other serious medical conditions: ARDS, whose classical pathophysiological hallmarks are neutrophil-mediated inflammation, excessive transmigration and activation of leukocytes and platelets, incresed activation of coagulation pathways and enhanced permeability through the thin alveolar-capillary membrane,