High incidence of barotrauma in patients admitted with COVID-19 to ICU and associated mortality in rural Appalachia: An observational study

• Sunil Sharma ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Sunil.Sharma@hsc.wvu.edu

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States of America, West Virginia University Critical Care and Trauma Institute, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6006-8240

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• Varun Badami,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States of America, West Virginia University Critical Care and Trauma Institute, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

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• Edward Rojas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States of America, West Virginia University Critical Care and Trauma Institute, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

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• Rahul Sangani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States of America, West Virginia University Critical Care and Trauma Institute, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

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• Kyle Chapman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States of America, West Virginia University Critical Care and Trauma Institute, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

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• Carlo Avalon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

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• Austin King,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

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• Sijin Wen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States of America

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