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Critically ill COVID-19 patients: a sociodemographic and clinical profile and associations between variables and workload

Pacientes críticos con Covid-19: perfil sociodemográfico, clínico y asociaciones entre variables y carga de trabajo

ABSTRACT

Objective:

To identify the sociodemographic and clinical profile of COVID-19 patients; measure workload and make associations between clinical variables.

Methods:

Cross-sectional study with 150 adult COVID-19 patients in an intensive care unit (from March to June 2020). Data from the electronic medical record in the first 24 hours of hospitalization: gender, age, education, origin, comorbidities, invasive mechanical ventilation, prone maneuver, renal replacement therapy, pressure injury, Braden, Nursing Activities Score, diagnoses, and nursing care. Descriptive statistical analysis, associations between clinical variables and age group.

Results:

Male (55.3%); mean age, 59 years; hypertensive (57.3%); obese (50.6%); diabetic (34%); invasive mechanical ventilation (66.7%); pronated (20.6%); hemodialysis (15.3%); Nursing Activities Score average, 86%. Twenty-eight nursing diagnoses and 73 cares were found.

Conclusion:

Patients required highly complex support. There was a significant association between pressure injury and workload with the prone maneuver. Nursing diagnoses and care reflect the needs of critical patients.

Descriptors:
Coronavirus Infections; Intensive Care Units; Nursing Process; Workload; Nursing Diagnosis

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