{"id":5688,"date":"2020-04-06T15:47:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:48:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:48:47","slug":"level-of-il-6-predicts-respiratory-failure-in-hospitalized-symptomatic-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/06\/level-of-il-6-predicts-respiratory-failure-in-hospitalized-symptomatic-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Level of IL-6 predicts respiratory failure in hospitalized symptomatic COVID-19 patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Herold et al found a strong association between elevated interleukin-6 (IL-6) and the need for mechanical ventilation in 40 hospitalized patients. The patients did not differ in age, comorbidities, radiological findings, respiratory rate of qSofa score.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This suggests that IL-6 is an effective marker that could be used by physicians to predict upcoming respiratory failure and allocate patients at an early stage.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Herold et al. (Apr 4, 2020). Level of IL-6 predicts respiratory failure in hospitalized symptomatic COVID-19 patients. Pre-print downloaded Apr 6 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.01.20047381\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.01.20047381<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herold et al found a strong association between elevated interleukin-6 (IL-6) and the need for mechanical ventilation in 40 hospitalized patients. The patients did not differ in age, comorbidities, radiological findings, respiratory rate of qSofa score.\u00a0 This suggests that IL-6 is an effective marker that could be used by physicians to predict upcoming respiratory failure&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/06\/level-of-il-6-predicts-respiratory-failure-in-hospitalized-symptomatic-covid-19-patients\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5689,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions\/5689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}