id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-286743-z0e5arlm Langer-Gould, Annette Early Identification of COVID-19 Cytokine Storm and Treatment with Anakinra or Tocilizumab 2020-08-06 .txt text/plain 4258 213 43 Subsequently, a shift in practice by clinicians at some of our medical centers aimed to identify early COVID19-CS through laboratory abnormalities in patients with increasing O2 requirements and to initiate combined treatment with anakinra and corticosteroids occurred. Data were extracted by manual reviewing the EHR, including onset of dyspnea and other COVID-19 symptoms, age, sex, comorbidities, smoking status, tocilizumab and anakinra use, other J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f treatments rendered for hydroxychloroquine, and/or corticosteroids) , fever (>100.4F), hypotension requiring pressors, dates of admission, intubation, extubation, discharge and/or death. The primary purpose of analyses was to describe clinical outcomes among tocilizumab-or anakinra-treated COVID-19 patients and to examine whether differences in outcomes could be accounted for by COVID19-CS severity and/or duration at the time of treatment initiation (baseline). ./cache/cord-286743-z0e5arlm.txt ./txt/cord-286743-z0e5arlm.txt