COVID-19 in critical care: epidemiology of the first epidemic wave across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To describe critical care patients with COVID-19 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland and compare them with a historic cohort of patients with other viral pneumonias (non-COVID-19) and with international cohorts of COVID-19.

Methods

Extracted data on patient characteristics, acute illness severity, organ support and outcomes from the Case Mix Programme, the national clinical audit for adult critical care, for a prospective cohort of patients with COVID-19 (February to August 2020) are compared with a recent retrospective cohort of patients with other viral pneumonias (non-COVID-19) (2017-2019) and with other international cohorts of critical care patients with COVID-19, the latter identified from published reports.

Results

10,834 patients with COVID-19 (

SUBMITTER: Richards-Belle A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7545019 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature