Study Finds Almost All Covid-19 Patients Who Went On Ventilators At New York’s Largest Healthcare System

Overall, approximately 20% of Covid-19 patients treated at Northwell Health died, and 88% of those who received ventilators died, according to the study. A ventilator is a device that forces air into the lungs of patients who cannot breathe on their own due to severe pneumonia or acute respiratory distress syndrome.

The team examined the electronic health records of 5,700 coronavirus disease patients hospitalized at Northwell Health. The final results were known to 2,634 of them.

“Of the patients who died, those with diabetes were more likely to have received invasive mechanical ventilation or ICU care compared to those without diabetes,” the researchers wrote.

They also confirmed that men were more likely to die than women, and that no one under the age of 18 died.

The symptoms of infection were far from clear. About a third of all patients presented with fever, 17% were breathing too fast, and just under 30% required additional oxygen. On average, patients were sent home after four days.

But 14% were treated in intensive care, 3% needed intensive dialysis, and 21% died.

“This study reported mortality rates only for patients with defined outcomes (discharge or death), and a longer-term study may find different mortality rates as different segments of the population are infected,” the Northwell Health team wrote. .