An online very first research study released in Critical Care Medicine suggests the real death rate of grownups with important disease from COVID-19 is less than what was formerly reported. Compared to earlier reports of a 50 percent death rate, the research study discovers that the death rate of seriously ill clients who needed mechanical ventilation was just 35.7 percent. About 60 percent of clients observed in the research study made it through to healthcare facility discharge.
The research study observed clients 18 years and older from 6 COVID-19 designated extensive care systems in 3 medical facilities in Atlanta, Ga. from March to April 2020. The authors keep in mind that numerous factors to consider might have affected the results of the research study consisting of that all seriously ill clients with COVID-19 in the healthcare facility network were confessed to pre-existing ICUs that had sufficient staffing ratios and devices.
An accompanying online very first editorial takes a look at the function of mainstream and social networks in developing the story that intubation and mechanical ventilation were “the cause of suboptimal outcomes” for seriously ill COVID-19 clients, without representing healthcare facility staffing and devices lacks.
References:
“ICU and Ventilator Mortality Among Critically Ill Adults With Coronavirus Disease 2019” by Auld, Sara C. MD, MSc; Caridi-Scheible, Mark MD; Blum, James M. MD; Robichaux, Chad Miles Per Hour; Kraft, Colleen MD, MSc; Jacob, Jesse T. MD, MSc; Jabaley, Craig S. MD; Carpenter, David PA; Kaplow, Roberta PhD, Registered Nurse; Hernandez-Romieu, Alfonso C. MD, Miles Per Hour; Adelman, Max W. MD; Martin, Greg S. MD, MSc; Coopersmith, Craig M. MD; Murphy, David J. MD, PhD and the Emory COVID-19 Quality and Clinical Research Collaborative, 26 May 2020, Critical Care Medicine.
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004457
“Mechanical Ventilation During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Combating the Tsunami of Misinformation From Mainstream and Social Media” by Savel, Richard H. MD, CPE, FCCM; Shiloh, Ariel L. MD, FCCP; Saunders, Paul C. MD; Kupfer, Yizhak MD, FCCP, 2 June 2020, Critical Care Medicine.
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004462
