Comorbities and clinical evolution of critical patients with COVID-19 assisted at a regional hospital in Planalto Norte Catarinense

Abstract

Regarding the epidemiological scenario of coping with COVID-19, it is important to consider the importance and lack of regional epidemiological data in Santa Catarina (SC) – Brazil. Therefore, the present study aimed to study and discuss comorbidities, epidemiological data, and outcome in patients with COVID19 treated and hospitalized in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a regional hospital in the northern plateau of Santa Catarina (SC). Through retrospective investigative and descriptive analysis, using data indexed in medical records (from March to December 2020) of patients hospitalized in ICU-Covid19, we studied the clinical characteristics and intra-hospital evolutions. In this population, it was found that epidemiological indicators such as gender, risk factors and mortality agree with those described worldwide, which were: higher prevalence of males, without significant differences in relation to age in relation to females. However, there was a significant difference in relation to the mean age of the population that evolved to death in relation to the population that evolved to hospital discharge. Regional epidemiological studies support health, disease, and health market data indicators that are summarily important for the development of health strategies and planning. Thus, the present study aims to contribute to the knowledge of this scenario in the health region in question, as well as the global epidemiological scenario of this disease condition.