Respiratory Monitoring at Bedside in COVID-19 Patients

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Hi there

Thanks for the opportunity to review this interesting paper. My comments are as follows:

• The title is not clear: I think it needs to be developed further to explain more clearly what the manuscript is about
• There needs to be some editing of English eg Introduction L23 The sentence should start with a capital letter.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer 1,

Many thanks for your comments; we are grateful for your appreciation.

1. We procced to a deeply revision and polishing of the English language, as suggested.

The title changed and now we hope that is more pertinent with the core message.

Reviewer 2 Report

this draft is very interesting

In this article, authors review some of the ways available in daily clinical

prac- 176 tice to consider the patient's respiratory effort , which we evaluate as an important diag- 177 nostic tool, both in the patient undergoing mechanical ventilation (where proper protec- 178 tive ventilation can be decisive), and in spontaneous breathing patients . In the lat- 179 ter it is only possible to make an attempt to modulate the drive with the application of 180 supplemental oxygen alone or with the application of respiratory pressures (IPAP, 181 EPAP; CPAP) at various levels of intensity and in different ways, and control respira- 182 tory drive with sedatives. A careful monitoring could be implemented whether the pa- 183 tient will be responsive to treatment or whether he needs an upgrade of ventilatory sup- 184 port.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer 2

We are to thank you for your comment. The manuscript has been improved in terms of language polishing and we fixed the texting errors