Nearly 90 per cent of COVID-19 patients who were placed on ventilators in New York’s largest health system DIED – and almost all of those hospitalized had underlying health conditions
- The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Wednesday, examined the electronic health records of 5,700 patients
- Final outcomes were known for 2,634 patients
- It found that overall, roughly 20 per cent of COVID-19 patients treated at Northwell Health died
- Of those placed on ventilators, 88 per cent died.
- The study also indicates that those who have become the most severely ill have had some sort of underlying condition
- 57 per cent had high blood pressure, 42 per cent were obese and 34 per cent had diabetes
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Nearly 90 per cent of all coronavirus patients placed on ventilators in New York’s largest health system died, according to a study.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Wednesday, examined the electronic health records of 5,700 patients hospitalized at Northwell Health. Final outcomes were known for 2,634 patients.
It found that overall, roughly 20 per cent of COVID-19 patients treated at Northwell Health died.
But of those placed on ventilators, 88 per cent died.
Approximately 12 per cent of patients in the study needed ventilators, CNN reports.
The study also found that 94 per cent of those who were hospitalized had some sort of underlying health condition.
It was found that 57 per cent had high blood pressure, 42 per cent were obese and 34 per cent had diabetes.
The study found that overall, roughly 20 per cent of COVID-19 patients treated at Northwell Health died. Of those placed on ventilators, 88 per cent died
‘Of the patients who died, those with diabetes were more likely to have received invasive mechanical ventilation or care in the ICU compared with those who did not have diabetes,’ researchers wrote.
Men were also shown to die more often than women, according to the study. No one under the age of 18 died.
About a third of all patients arrived with fevers while 17 per cent were breathing too fast and another 30 per cent needed extra oxygen.
The study also indicates that those who have become the most severely ill have had some sort of underlying condition: 57 per cent had high blood pressure, 41 per cent were obese and 34 per cent had diabetes
Patients were sent home after four days on average.
Roughly 14 per cent were treated in intensive care, three per cent needed intensive dialysis and 21 per cent died.
‘This study reported mortality rates only for patients with definite outcomes (discharge or death), and a longer-term study may find different mortality rates as different segments of the population are infected,’ the Northwell Health team wrote.
‘This is a very serious disease with a very poor outcome for those who have severe infections from it,’ Karina Davidson, one of the study’s authors and senior vice president for the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, which is part of the Northwell Health system, told Time.
‘We want patients with serious chronic disease to take a special precaution and to seek medical attention early, should they start showing signs and symptoms of being infected. That includes knowing that they’ve been exposed to someone who has this virus.’
More than 15,000 New Yorkers have died from the coronavirus
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