Predictors of in-hospital mortality in critically ill patients with COVID-19: a large dual tertiary centre study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of echocardiographic parameters, laboratory findings and clinical characteristics with in-hospital mortality in adult patients with COVID-19 admitted to the intensive care units (ICU) in two large collaborating tertiary UK centres.

Design

Observational retrospective study.

Setting

The study was conducted in patients admitted to the ICU in two large tertiary centres in London, UK.

Participants

Inclusion criteria were: (1) patients admitted to the ICU with a COVID-19 diagnosis over a period of 16 weeks. and (2) underwent a transthoracic echocardiogram on the first day of ICU admission as clinically indicated.No exclusion criteria applied.Three hundred patients were enrolled and completed the fol

SUBMITTER: Cirillo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9716800 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature