Haematological predictors of poor outcome among COVID-19 patients admitted to an intensive care unit of a tertiary hospital in South Africa.
Zivanai Cuthbert ChapandukaIbtisam AbdullahBrian AllwoodCoenraad F KoegelenbergElvis IrusenUsha LallaAnnalise E ZemlinTandi E MashaRajiv T ErasmusThumeka P JalavuVeranyuy D NgahAnteneh YalewLovemore N SigwadhiNicola BainesJacques L TamuziMarli McAllisterAnne K BarasaValerie K MagutuCaroline NjeruAngela AmayoMarianne W Wanjiru MureithiMary MunganiaMusa Sono-SetatiAlimuddin ZumlaPeter Suwirakwenda NyasuluPublished in: PloS one (2022)
Our study showed that raised neutrophil count, NLR and D-dimer at the time of ICU admission were associated with higher mortality. Contrary to what has previously been reported, our study revealed females admitted to the ICU had a higher risk of mortality.
Keyphrases
- intensive care unit
- south africa
- mechanical ventilation
- coronavirus disease
- emergency department
- sars cov
- cardiovascular events
- cardiovascular disease
- risk factors
- type diabetes
- coronary artery disease
- hiv positive
- human immunodeficiency virus
- peripheral blood
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation