COVID-19: Corona patients using a ventilator: nearly 90% dead (JAMA survey)
COVID-19:
－US research for inpatients－
We surveyed patients admitted from March 1 to April 4 at 12 medical institutions in New York City / Long Island.
This is the largest study ever published on a new type of corona inpatient.
The research results were published in the medical journal, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Journal of the American Medical Association: (JAMA)
Of the patients included, 553 died, accounting for 21% of the total.
The fatality rate has risen to 88% in the critically ill (12% of the total) who need a ventilator.
Over 65 years, the survival rate for patients on ventilator use was only 3%.
Men were more fatal than women.
(Bloomberg)
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20200423-15494011-bloom_st-bus_all
New Study Shows Nearly 9 in 10 Covid-19
Patients on Ventilators Don’t Make It Researchers tracked 2,634 outcomes in NY-area hospitals
Only 3% of those over 65 on ventilators survived, report says
A giant study that examined outcomes for more than 2,600 patients
found an extraordinarily high 88% death rate among Covid-19 patients in the New York City area who had to be placed on mechanical devices to help them breathe.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association,
is one of the largest reviews published to date of Covid-19 patients hospitalized in the U.S.
The researchers examined outcomes for coronavirus patients
who were admitted between March 1 and April 4 to 12 hospitals in New York City and Long Island that are part of the Northwell Health system.
Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area | Critical Care Medicine | JAMA | JAMA Network