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Baseline characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted to a Respiratory Intensive Care Unit (RICU) in Southern Italy
- Source :
- Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- PAGEPress Publications, 2020.
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Abstract
- The recent Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic, first in China and then also in Italy, brought to the attention the problem of the saturation of Intensive Care Units (ICUs). Almost all previous reports showed that in ICU less than half of patients were treated with invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) and the rest of them with non-invasive respiratory support. This highlighted the role of respiratory intensive care units (RICUs), where patients with moderate to severe respiratory failure can be treated with non-invasive respiratory support, avoiding ICU admission. In this report, we describe baseline characteristics and clinical outcomes of 97 patients with moderate to severe respiratory failure due to COVID-19 admitted to the RICU of the Policlinico of Bari from March 11th to May 31st 2020. In our population, most of the subjects were male (72%), non-smokers (76%), with a mean age of 69.65±14 years. Ninety-one percent of patients presented at least one comorbidity and 60% had more than two comorbidities. At admission, 40% of patients showed PaO2/FiO2 ratio between 100 and 200 and 17% showed Pa02/FiO2 ratio
- Subjects :
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Mechanical ventilation
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- ISSN :
- 20496958 and 1828695X
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a4b4c7707278097db8ec68f2a796498f