Baseline characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted to a Respiratory Intensive Care Unit (RICU) in Southern Italy.
Baseline characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted to a Respiratory Intensive Care Unit (RICU) in Southern Italy.
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DOI:
10.4081/mrm.2020.704
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发表时间:
2020-01-28
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Resta O
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作者:
Di Lecce V;Carpagnano GE;Pierucci P;Quaranta VN;Barratta F;Zito A;Buonamico E;Resta O
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 <100. Mean Pa02/FiO2 ratio at admission was 186.4±80. These patients were treated with non-invasive respiratory support 40% with CPAP, 38% with BPAP, 3% with HFNC, 11% with standard oxygen therapy or with IMV through tracheostomy (patients in step down from ICU, 8%). Patients discharged to general ward (GW) were 51%, 30% were transferred to ICU and 19% died. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the few described experiences of patients with respiratory failure due to COVID-19 treated outside the ICU, in a RICU. Outcomes of our patients, characterized by several risk factors for disease progression, were satisfactory compared with other experiences regarding patients treated with non-invasive respiratory support in ICU. The strategical allocation of our RICU, between ED and ICU, might have positively influenced clinical outcomes of our patients.
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影响因子:
168.9
作者:
Huang, Chaolin;Wang, Yeming;Cao, Bin
通讯作者:
Cao, Bin
影响因子:
11.8
作者:
Ji, Dong;Zhang, Dawei;Qin, Enqiang
通讯作者:
Qin, Enqiang
DOI:
10.1183/16000617.0287-2020
发表时间:
2020-09-30
期刊:
European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society
影响因子:
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作者:
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通讯作者:
Wilson KC
影响因子:
9.8
作者:
Higgs, A.;McGrath, B. A.;Cook, T. M.
通讯作者:
Cook, T. M.
影响因子:
120.7
作者:
Wang, Dawei;Hu, Bo;Peng, Zhiyong
通讯作者:
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