Revista española de anestesiología y reanimación
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Jan 2021
Multicenter Study Observational StudyCritically ill COVID-19 patients attended by anesthesiologists in northwestern Spain: a multicenter prospective observational study.
There are limited information on outcome, complications and treatments of critically ill COVID-19 patients requiring admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). The aim of this study is to describe the clinical ICU course, treatments used, complications and outcomes, of critically ill COVID-19 patients admitted in seven ICU in Galicia region during the 2020 March-April pandemic peak. ⋯ A high proportion of our critically ill COVID-19 patients required mechanical ventilation, prone positioning, antiviral medication, corticosteroids, and anticoagulants. ICU complications were frequent, mainly infections and thrombotic events. We had a relatively low mortality of 15,5%.