Abstract

In the course of writing a rapid review for the University of Oxford, we came across an interesting and timely systematic review and meta-analysis in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine by Santoso and colleagues. This paper was of note to us because it included a meta-analysis on acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and cardiac injury, based on two papers - one by Shi and another by Wu. On reading the paper by Wu, we have significant concerns about the inclusion of this study in Santoso's meta-analysis as we believe it currently underpins an inaccurate conclusion that cardiac injury is not significantly associated with increased risk of ARDS in COVID-19.

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Carver, C. & Jones, N. 2020, 'Cardiac injury, ARDS and COVID-19 meta-analysis validity - Correspondence in response to Santoso et al', American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 42, pp. 252-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2020.06.028

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