Indian Journal of Medical Research (Jan 2020)

Clinico-demographic profile & hospital outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted at a tertiary care centre in north India

  • Anant Mohan,
  • Pawan Tiwari,
  • Sushma Bhatnagar,
  • Ankit Patel,
  • Abhishek Maurya,
  • Lalit Dar,
  • Sourabh Pahuja,
  • Rakesh Garg,
  • Nishkarsh Gupta,
  • Biswajeet Sahoo,
  • Ritu Gupta,
  • Ved Prakash Meena,
  • Saurabh Vig,
  • Anuja Pandit,
  • Saurabh Mittal,
  • Karan Madan,
  • Vijay Hadda,
  • Tanima Dwivedi,
  • Aashish Choudhary,
  • Megha Brijwal,
  • Manish Soneja,
  • Randeep Guleria,
  • Brajesh Ratre,
  • Balbir Kumar,
  • Shweta Bhopale,
  • Smriti Panda,
  • Angel Rajan Singh,
  • Sheetal Singh,
  • Laxmitej Wundavalli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1788_20
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 152, no. 1
pp. 61 – 69

Abstract

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Background & objectives: In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in China and rapidly spread globally including India. The characteristic clinical observations and outcomes of this disease (COVID-19) have been reported from different countries. The present study was aimed to describe the clinico-demographic characteristics and in-hospital outcomes of a group of COVID-19 patients in north India. Methods: This was a prospective, single-centre collection of data regarding epidemiological, demographic, clinical and laboratory parameters, management and outcome of COVID-19 patients admitted in a tertiary care facility in north India. Patient outcomes were recorded as death, discharge and still admitted. Results: Data of 144 patients with COVID-19 were recorded and analyzed. The mean age of the patients was 40.1±13.1 yr, with 93.1 per cent males, and included 10 (6.9%) foreign nationals. Domestic travel to or from affected States (77.1%) and close contact with COVID-19 patients in congregations (82.6%) constituted the most commonly documented exposure. Nine (6.3%) patients were smokers, with a median smoking index of 200. Comorbidities were present in 23 (15.9%) patients, of which diabetes mellitus (n=16; 11.1%) was the most common. A significant proportion of patients had no symptoms (n=64; 44.4%); among the symptomatic, cough (34.7%) was the most common symptom followed by fever (17.4%) and nasal symptoms (2.15%). Majority of the patients were managed with supportive treatment with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin given on a case-to-case basis. Only five (3.5%) patients required oxygen supplementation, four (2.8%) patients had severe disease requiring intensive care, one required mechanical ventilation and mortality occurred in two (1.4%) patients. The time to reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) negativity was 16-18 days. Interpretation & conclusions: In this single-centre study of 144 hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19 in north India, the characteristic findings included younger age, high proportion of asymptomatic patients, long time to PCR negativity and low need for intensive care unit care.

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