Experience of the Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital named after S.P. Botkin in the pandemic of a new coronavirus infection

Abstract

The article presents the results of a two-year work of the Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital named after S.P. Botkin (Botkin Hospital) during the pandemic of a new coronavirus infection from March 01, 2020 to March 01, 2022. The characteristics of patients with a new coronavirus infection by age, severity of the disease, need for intensive care, including mechanical ventilation and ECMO, are given. Estimated hospital mortality from a new coronavirus infection. The contribution of concomitant infectious diseases (HIV infection, chronic viral hepatitis) to the lethality of patients with COVID-19 is presented. The volumes of assistance to pregnant women, women in childbirth and puerperas with COVID-19, as well as patients on program hemodialysis are presented. The structure of hospitalized patients according to nosological forms was analyzed. Against the backdrop of a massive influx of patients with COVID-19, a sharp decrease in hospitalization of patients with other infectious diseases was noted.

Keywords

• botkin hospital
• pandemic
• covid-19