Predisposing clinical factors for admission to the Intensive Care Unit in patients with COVID-19

ABSTRACT

The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus showed the need to know in patients, what are the risk factors and diseases that could be the most susceptible to developing the most serious forms of COVID-19, which It would lead to admission to the Intensive Care Units for hemodynamic and ventilatory management, which also constitutes a high risk of death. 135 patients admitted to the ICU with positive PCR tests were studied from March to August 2020 and it was found that during this study period the most affected age group was 55 to 65 years (31.8%) followed by group 66 to 74 years (25.1%). The mean was 58 years. In addition, there was a predominance in the male gender with 69,6% over 30.4% in the female gender. In the analysis of the most frequent comorbidities, obesity was found in 26.6%, arterial hypertension with 23.7% and diabetes mellitus in 21.4%.