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- Title
CLINICAL PROFILE AND OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED FOR COVID-19 IN A HOSPITAL IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL.
- Authors
Henrique de Rosso, Lucas; Machado Carvalho, Sidiclei; Claro Maurer, Tiago; Rossi, Danusa; Ferreira de Camillis, Marcio Luiz; Corrêa Garcia, Leonardo Miguel
- Abstract
Objective: to describe the clinical profile and outcomes of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 admitted to a private hospital in southern Brazil. Method: descriptive study, conducted with 110 patients with COVID-19 who required hospitalization between March and May 2020. Sociodemographic data, clinical profile, signs and symptoms, and clinical outcomes were collected. Descriptive analysis was adopted for data interpretation. Results: male predominated (64.5%). Prevalent comorbidity: Systemic Arterial Hypertension (45.5%). Signs and symptoms with greater prominence: cough (53.6%) and dyspnea (48.2%). Clinical outcomes evidenced: chest tomography with ground-glass opacities (98.2%), supplementation with oxygen therapy (86.4%), referral to the Hospitalization Unit (90.9%). Observed complications: cardiac arrhythmias (18.2%) and hypoxemia (18.2%). Predominant outcome was improved discharge (90%). Conclusion: the description of the clinical profile and outcome of patients with COVID-19 will provide the direction of care with care flows and protocols that guarantee quality of care and safety in clinical practice.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; EVALUATION of medical care; HYPERTENSION; OBESITY; COVID-19; CHEST X rays; FEVER; MYALGIA; DIARRHEA; NAUSEA; RESEARCH methodology; LUNG diseases; ACQUISITION of data; DIABETES; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; DYSPNEA; MUSCLE weakness; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; RHINORRHEA; VOMITING; ASTHENIA; ARTIFICIAL respiration; HOSPITAL care; DISEASE prevalence; COUGH; OXYGEN therapy; MEDICAL records; CHEST pain; PROPRIETARY hospitals; COMPUTED tomography; ARRHYTHMIA; DATA analysis software; HEADACHE; COMORBIDITY; HYPOXEMIA; HEART diseases; PHARYNGITIS; EARACHE
- Publication
Revista Baiana de Enfermagem, 2022, Vol 36, p1
- ISSN
0102-5430
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18471/rbe.v36.45838