Clinical, imaging, and laboratory characteristics of patients with COVID-19 according to ICU admission requirement in Cali, Colombia
| Autor: | Carmen Ocampo, Mónica Morales, Martín Cañón-Muñoz, Christian Pallares-Gutierrez, Karen Daniela López, Adrián Fernández-Osorio |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, Vol 71, Iss 2 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0120-0011 2357-3848 |
| DOI: | 10.15446/revfacmed.v71n2.98696 |
| Popis: | Introduction: At present, few studies conducted in Latin America have addressed the demographic, clinical, and laboratory characteristics of patients with COVID-19 and intensive care unit (ICU) admission requirement. Objective: To compare the sociodemographic, clinical, imaging, and laboratory characteristics of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 and treated in the emergency department of a hospital in Cali, Colombia, based on ICU admission requirement. Materials and methods: Retrospective and descriptive single cohort study conducted in 49 adults with COVID-19 treated in the emergency department of a quaternary care hospital in Cali (Colombia) between March and April 2020. Patients were divided into two groups: ICU admission requirement (n=24) and non-ICU admission requirement (n=25). Bivariate analyses were performed to determine differences between groups (chi-square, Fisher's exact, Student's t, and Mann-Whitney U tests), with a significance level of p |
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