Prolonged Unconsciousness is Common in COVID-19 and Associated with Hypoxemia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The purpose of this study was to estimate the time to recovery of command-following and associations between hypoxemia with time to recovery of command-following.

Methods

In this multicenter, retrospective, cohort study during the initial surge of the United States' pandemic (March-July 2020) we estimate the time from intubation to recovery of command-following, using Kaplan Meier cumulative-incidence curves and Cox proportional hazard models. Patients were included if they were admitted to 1 of 3 hospitals because of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), required endotracheal intubation for at least 7 days, and experienced impairment of consciousness (Glasgow Coma Scale motor score <6).

Results

Five hundred seventy-one patients of the 795 patients rec

SUBMITTER: Waldrop G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9082460 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature