ICU admission rates in Istanbul following the addition of favipiravir to the national COVID-19 treatment protocol.
COVID-19
favipiravir
intensive care unit
Journal
Northern clinics of Istanbul
ISSN: 2536-4553
Titre abrégé: North Clin Istanb
Pays: Turkey
ID NLM: 101684520
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
10
11
2020
accepted:
01
02
2021
entrez:
14
4
2021
pubmed:
15
4
2021
medline:
15
4
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The objective of this study was to understand the observational relationship between adoption of favipiravir into the national COVID-19 treatment protocol and intensive care unit (ICU) admission rates in Istanbul due to COVID-19. Data were harvested from the "Public Health Management System-HSYS," which collate centrally the records of all known cases of COVID-19. The total number of cases, numbers admitted to ICU, and number undergoing intubation were compared between 2 time periods: 11 The percentage of patients requiring ICU admission diminished from 24% to 12%, whilst the percentage intubated fell from 77% to 66%. These differences were both statistically significant. The addition of favipiravir to the national COVID-19 treatment protocol may explain this rapid decrease in the rate of ICU admissions and intubation.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33851074
doi: 10.14744/nci.2021.60420
pii: NCI-8-119
pmc: PMC8039109
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
119-123Informations de copyright
Copyright: © 2021 by Istanbul Northern Anatolian Association of Public Hospitals.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Conflict of Interest: No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.
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