| ARDS | Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome |
| ASB | Assisted Spontaneous Breathing |
| AUROC | Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve |
| BiPAP | Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure |
| CI | Confidence Interval |
| CMV | Controlled Mechanical Ventilation |
| COVID-19 | Coronavirus Disease 2019 |
| CPAP | Continuous Positive Airway Pressure |
| DIVI | German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (Deutsche Interdisziplinäre Vereinigung für Intensiv-und Notfallmedizin) |
| ECMO | Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation |
| FiO2 | Fraction of Inspired Oxygen |
| GCS | Glasgow Coma Scale |
| ICU | Intensive Care Unit |
| ITW | Intensive Care Transport Vehicle (Intensivtransportwagen) |
| MAP | Mean Arterial Pressure |
| OR | Odds Ratio |
| PaO2 | Partial Pressure of Arterial Oxygen |
| PCV | Pressure-Controlled Ventilation |
| PEEP | Positive End-Expiratory Pressure |
| P/F ratio | Ratio of Arterial Oxygen Partial Pressure to Fraction of Inspired Oxygen (PaO2/FiO2) |
| SARS-CoV-2 | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 |
| SpO2 | Peripheral Oxygen Saturation |
| SPSS | Statistical Package for the Social Sciences |
| VV-ECMO | Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation |