Clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with COVID-19 admitted to the intensive care unit during the first and second waves of the pandemic in Brazil: a single-center retrospective cohort study.
Thiago Domingos CorreaThais Dias MidegaRicardo Luiz CordioliCarmen Silvia Valente BarbasRoberto Rabello FilhoBruno Caldin da SilvaMoacyr Silva JúniorRicardo Kenji NawaFabrício Rodrigues Torres de CarvalhoGustavo Faissol Janot de MatosNeide Marcela LucinioRodrigo Dias RodriguesRaquel Afonso Caserta EidBruno de Arruda BravimAdriano José PereiraBento Fortunato Cardoso Dos SantosJoão Renato Rebello PinhoAndreia PardiniVanessa Damazio TeichClaudia Regina LaselvaMiguel Cendoroglo NetoSidney KlajnerLeonardo Jose Rolim FerrazPublished in: Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) (2023)
In the first and second waves, patients with severe COVID-19 exhibited similar mortality rates and need for invasive organ support, despite the second wave group being younger and less severely ill at the time of intensive care unit admission.