Experience of an Emergency Intensive Care Unit During COVID-19 Pandemic

Completed

• Conditions: Covid19

• Registration Number: NCT04480060
• Lead Sponsor: Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Training and Research Hospital

Brief Summary

COVID-19, which emerged in China in December 2019, has become a pandemic with its spread to many countries of the world. Emergency departments also carried out an important part of the fight against pandemics in our country/Turkey. The emergency department including an intensive care unit is very few in this country/Turkey and the only hospital, which has an Emergency Intensive Care Unit (EICU) in Istanbul, is the study center. Therefore, this retrospective study aimed to provide useful information about how an effective EICU should be, especially how to use them during pandemic periods.

Detailed Description

COVID-19, which emerged in China in December 2019, has become a pandemic with its spread to many countries of the world. Emergency departments also carried out an important part of the fight against pandemics in our country/Turkey. The emergency department including an intensive care unit is very few in this country/Turkey and the only hospital, which has an Emergency Intensive Care Unit (EICU) in Istanbul, is the study center. Throughout the pandemic, many patients, including COVID-19 patients, were successfully followed up and discharged from EICU. With this study, the investigators expect to show the role of EICU during the pandemic. In addition, it will be seen that whether the patients, who are waiting for hospitalization or waiting for referral, are admitted to EICU faster and their treatments will be started promptly. Therefore, this retrospective study aimed to provide useful information about how an effective EICU should be, especially how to use them during pandemic periods.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-03-10
• Primary Completion: 2020-06-30
• Status Verified: 2020-07
• Study Completion: 2020-07-14
• Study First Submitted: 2020-07-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-07-20
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-07-20
• Study First Posted: 2020-07-21
• Last Update Posted: 2020-07-21

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100000

Inclusion Criteria

• All patients who followed up in emergency department ICU with the diagnosis of COVID-19
• Accepted to participate with an informed consent

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Exclusion Criteria

• Patients under the age of 18 or more than 50 years
• declined to participate
• deaths caused by other than COVID-19

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Mortality of the COVID-19 patients	3 months	Mortality of the COVID-19 patients who followed up by emergency department ICU

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Seda Yilmaz Semerci; 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Turkey