critical illness Archives - Amazing Health Advances https://amazinghealthadvances.net/tag/critical-illness/ Your hub for fresh-picked health and wellness info Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:50:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://amazinghealthadvances.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/AHA_Gradient_Bowl-150x150.jpg critical illness Archives - Amazing Health Advances https://amazinghealthadvances.net/tag/critical-illness/ 32 32 Actual Mortality Rate of COVID-19-Affected Adults Is Less Than What Was Previously Reported https://amazinghealthadvances.net/actual-mortality-rate-of-covid-19-affected-adults-is-less-than-what-was-previously-reported-6610/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=actual-mortality-rate-of-covid-19-affected-adults-is-less-than-what-was-previously-reported-6610 https://amazinghealthadvances.net/actual-mortality-rate-of-covid-19-affected-adults-is-less-than-what-was-previously-reported-6610/#respond Wed, 10 Jun 2020 07:00:18 +0000 http://amazinghealthadvances.net/?p=8941 Wolters Kluwer Health via News-Medical Net – An online first study published in Critical Care Medicine indicates the actual mortality rate of adults with critical illness from COVID-19 is less than what was previously reported. Compared to earlier reports of a 50 percent mortality rate, the study finds that the mortality rate of critically ill patients who required mechanical ventilation was only 35.7 percent. About 60 percent of patients observed in the study survived to hospital discharge. The study observed patients 18 years and older from six COVID-19 designated intensive care units in three hospitals in Atlanta, Ga. from March to April 2020. The authors note that several considerations may have influenced the outcomes of the study including that all critically ill patients with COVID-19 in the hospital network were admitted to pre-existing ICUs that had adequate staffing ratios and equipment. An accompanying online first editorial examines the role of mainstream and social media in creating the narrative that intubation and mechanical ventilation were “the cause of suboptimal outcomes” for critically ill COVID-19 patients, without accounting for hospital staffing and equipment shortages. To read the original article click here.

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