Features and evolution of patients with COVID-19 who required mechanical ventilation

BACKGROUND: The overall mortality of patients with COVID-19 admitted to intensive care units is approximately 40%.

AIM: To describe the characteristics of a cohort of patients with COVID-19 who required invasive mechanical ventilation due to severe hypoxemic acute respiratory failure at a general hospital in Santiago, Chile.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: Review of medical records and follow up for 28 days of patients with COVID-19 confirmed by polymerase chain reaction who required invasive mechanical ventilation and who were admitted to the intensive care unit from March 24 to June 7, 2020.

RESULTS: Data from 152 patients aged 58 (interquartile range (IQR) 47-65 years (66% men) was analyzed. As of July 5, 36 (24%) had died, 75 (49%) were discharged, 10 (7%) were still on invasive mechanical ventilation, 11 (7%) remained with tracheostomy but without invasive mechanical ventilation, and 20 (13%) were hospitalized in a basic unit. The median time on invasive mechanical ventilation among extubated patients was 14 days (IQR 10-21) and 121 (80%) were in the prone position. Patients who died were older, had a higher frequency of diabetes mellitus and a higher driving pressure at 7 days than those discharged alive from the intensive care unit.

CONCLUSIONS: In this study mortality was lower than that reported in the first international studies, probably due to the selection of younger patients and greater knowledge of the disease.

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

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2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:149

Enthalten in:

Revista medica de Chile - 149(2021), 11 vom: 30. Nov., Seite 1544-1551

Sprache:

Spanisch

Weiterer Titel:

Características y resultados de pacientes COVID-19 tratados con ventilación mecánica invasiva en Hospital San Juan de Dios. Marzo-junio 2020

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Navarrete M, Wilfredo [VerfasserIn]
Miranda S, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Briceño M, Gonzalo [VerfasserIn]
Gramusset H, Lissette [VerfasserIn]
Allende C, Miguel [VerfasserIn]
Céspedes M, Natalia [VerfasserIn]
Pizarro L, Nicolás [VerfasserIn]
Bravo B, Felipe [VerfasserIn]
González B, Sandra [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 24.06.2022

Date Revised 24.06.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.4067/S0034-98872021001101544

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NLM342564528