Clinical Characteristics of Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19

Completed

• Conditions: Critical Illness; Characteristics Disease; Coronavirus Infection
• Interventions: Other: File Scanning

• Registration Number: NCT04413435
• Lead Sponsor: Nevsehir Public Hospital

Brief Summary

Critically ill patients with COVID-19 have hospitalized in an ICU due to the closer monitoring and therapy. In fact, ICU admissions are dependent on the severity of illness and the ICU capacity of the health-care system. Hence, it may be need a new scoring system for contagious critically ill patients.

Detailed Description

Critically ill patients with COVID-19 have hospitalized in an ICU due to the closer monitoring and therapy. In fact, ICU admissions are dependent on the severity of illness and the ICU capacity of the health-care system. Therefore, many patients with confirmed COVID-19 with RT-PCR and/or suspected COVID-19 were hospitalized in ICUs with a limited number of beds. This ambiguity can result in both contamination risk to uninfected patients and occupancy rate of the limited ICU beds. Hence, it may be need a new scoring system for contagious critically ill patients. The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiological and clinical features of 75 critically ill patients due to COVID-19 and to compare confirmed COVID-19 cases with suspected COVID-19 cases in our critical care units.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-05-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-06-01
• Study First Posted: 2020-06-04
• Study Start: 2020-10-30
• Status Verified: 2020-12
• Primary Completion: 2020-12-15
• Study Completion: 2020-12-25
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-12-30
• Last Update Posted: 2021-01-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 105

Inclusion Criteria

• All patients with confirmed COVID-19 and suspected COVID-19

Exclusion Criteria

• All patients <18 years old

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Suspected COVID-19 cases	File Scanning	The suspected COVID-19 cases were defined as follows: those who were interpreted in favor of the suspected covid-19 on c-CT by radiologists in addition to the typical symptoms of the novel coronavirus disease such as cough, high fever (\>38,5 °C), or dyspnea, and those with a history of contact with another confirmed COVID-19 patient in addition to typical symptoms.
Confirmed COVID-19 cases	File Scanning	Patients with PCR test positive were considered as the confirmed COVID-19 cases.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test	5 days	To compare confirmed COVID-19 cases with suspected COVID-19 cases in critical care units.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
A scoring system for patients to be admitted to the intensive care unit	5 days	To use symptoms, medical history, computed tomography and laboratory examinations for scoring system to detect suspected COVID-19 cases admitted to the intensive care units.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Konya Trainig and Research Hospital; 🇹🇷 Konya, Turkey