High incidence of stroke and mortality in pediatric critical care patients with COVID-19 in Peru.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pediatric critical care patients with COVID-19 treated in Peru have higher mortality than those previously reported from other countries. Pediatric providers have reported a high number of patients without comorbidities presenting with hemorrhagic strokes associated with COVID-19. We present a study analyzing the factors associated with mortality in this setting.

Methods

Prospective case-control study that included patients <17 years old admitted to a pediatric critical care unit with a positive test confirming COVID-19. The primary outcome was mortality. Fisher's exact test and the Mann-Whitney U test were used for the analysis.

Results

Forty-seven patients were admitted to critical care. The mortality of our study is 21.3%. The mortality of patients wit

SUBMITTER: Coronado Munoz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8090521 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature