Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Admissions for COVID-19: Insights Using State-Level Data.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Intensive care has played a pivotal role during the COVID-19 pandemic as many patients developed severe pulmonary complications. The availability of information in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) remains limited. The purpose of this study is to characterize COVID-19 positive admissions (CPAs) in the United States and to determine factors that may impact those admissions.

Materials and methods

This is a retrospective cohort study using data from the COVID-19 Virtual Pediatric System (VPS) dashboard containing information regarding respiratory support and comorbidities for all CPAs between March and April 2020. The state-level data contained 13 different factors from population density, comorbid conditions, and social distancing score. The absolute CPA coun

SUBMITTER: Loomba RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7704189 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature