Clinical characteristics, management and mortality of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in a reference hospital in Lima, Peru

• Autor(a) principal: Benites-Goñi , Harold
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Vargas-Carrillo , Ethel, Peña-Monge , Eloy, Taype-Rondan, Alvaro, Arróspide-Mormontoy , Danicsa, Castillo-Córdova , Mayra, David-Salas, Lourdes, Gonzales-Saravia , Iris, León-Vivar, Rodrigo, Medina-Morales , Bryan, Alférez-Andía , Jéssica, Dávalos-Moscol, Milagros
• Tipo de documento: preprint
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: SciELO Preprints
• Texto Completo: https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo/preprint/view/905
• topic: covid-19; hospitalization; mortality; Covid-19; covid-19; hospitalizados; mortalidad

The objective of this study was to describe the clinical characteristics, management and mortality of adult patients hospitalized by COVID-19 during the first fortnight of May 2020 at the Edgardo Rebagliati Martins National Hospital (Lima, Peru). A retrospective cohort was performed reviewing electronic medical records. Data from 152 patients was collected (68.4% male, average age: 58.7 years). It was found that 27.0% had close contact with a person with COVID-19, 64.2% came to the hospital with a critical illness, 91.4% received hydroxychloroquine and 96.1% received azithromycin, 23.7% entered the intensive care unit, and mortality was 18.8%. In conclusion, more than half of the patients came to this hospital with a critical illness, almost all received drugs that were initially seen as potentially useful but are not currently recommended for the management of COVID-19 in hospitalized, and mortality was similar to that reported in other countries.