Basic Demographics and Outcome of COVID-19 Patient Admitted in Tertiary Care Center, Surat

ABSTRACT

Introduction: COVID-19 pandemic started from Wuhan, China, and has spread across the world and whole humanity passed through this havoc of this pandemic. Healthcare system became overburdened due to scarcity of manpower and resources. Large number of cases treated in our hospital, here we are publishing our retrospective data of basic demographics and outcome of COVID-19 patients admitted in a tertiary care center in Surat. Materials and methods: This is a retrospective single-center study of demographics and outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted to Sunshine Global Hospital between June 2020 and July 2021. Data were collected from the hospital information system and analysed. These all patients are diagnosed on basis of rapid antigen and, or RTPCR reports along with HRCT of the chest. Results: A total of 1525 COVID-19 patients were admitted between June 2020 and July 2021. Out of those patients, complete data of 1514 is available, among them, 1036 [68%] were males with a mean age of 54 years and 478 [32%] were females with a mean age of 55 years. The average length of stay in the hospital was 7 days. 1412 [93.2%] survived and 98 [6.4%] died. Among 297 [19%] patients admitted to ICU admission, 120 [7.9%] patients required intubation. Mean age was 55 years. Average length of stay [LOS] in ICU was 7 days and LOS in the hospital was 11 days. In the intubated patient, the average duration of ventilator support was 7 days. Tracheostomy was done in 43 [2.8%] patients. Out of 120 intubated patients, 44 survived and were discharged after an average in-hospital stay of 15 days, while 76 patients could not survive. Survival rate in ICU patients was 69.4% and among those requiring invasive mechanical ventilation 36.7%. Conclusion: Protocolised system of care helped limiting the mortality in the COVID-19 pandemic. Large majority of those who are intubated and survived required tracheostomy, prolonged mechanical ventilation, ICU, and hospital LOS.