Clinical and organizational factors associated with mortality during the peak of first COVID-19 wave: the global UNITE-COVID study.

Massimiliano Greco Thomas De Corte Ari Ercole Massimo Antonelli Elie Azoulay Guiseppe Citerio Andrew Conway Morris Gennaro De Pascale František Duška Paul W G Elbers Sharon Einav Lui G Forni Laura Galarza Armand R J Girbes Giacomo Grasselli Vitaliy Gusarov Alasdair Jubb Jozef Kesecioglu Andrea Lavinio Maria Cruz Martin Delgado Johannes Mellinghoff Sheila Nainan Myatra Marlies Ostermann Mariangela Pellegrini Paula Fernandes Stefan J Schaller Jean-Louis Teboul Adrian Wong Jan J De Waele Maurizio Cecconinull null

Published in: Intensive care medicine (2022)

ICUs responded to the increase in COVID-19 patients by increasing bed availability and staff, admitting up to 40% of patients in surge capacity beds. Although mortality in this population was high, admission to a surge capacity bed was not associated with increased mortality. Older age, invasive mechanical ventilation, and AKI were identified as the strongest predictors of mortality.

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