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CompletedNCT04480060

Experience of an Emergency Intensive Care Unit During COVID-19 Pandemic

Experience of an Emergency Intensive Care Unit During COVID-19 Pandemic: Retrospective Cohort Study

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
100,000 (actual)
Sponsor
Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Training and Research Hospital · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years – 50 Years
Healthy volunteers
Accepted

Summary

COVID-19, which emerged in China in December 2019, has become a pandemic with its spread to many countries of the world. Emergency departments also carried out an important part of the fight against pandemics in our country/Turkey. The emergency department including an intensive care unit is very few in this country/Turkey and the only hospital, which has an Emergency Intensive Care Unit (EICU) in Istanbul, is the study center. Therefore, this retrospective study aimed to provide useful information about how an effective EICU should be, especially how to use them during pandemic periods.

Detailed description

COVID-19, which emerged in China in December 2019, has become a pandemic with its spread to many countries of the world. Emergency departments also carried out an important part of the fight against pandemics in our country/Turkey. The emergency department including an intensive care unit is very few in this country/Turkey and the only hospital, which has an Emergency Intensive Care Unit (EICU) in Istanbul, is the study center. Throughout the pandemic, many patients, including COVID-19 patients, were successfully followed up and discharged from EICU. With this study, the investigators expect to show the role of EICU during the pandemic. In addition, it will be seen that whether the patients, who are waiting for hospitalization or waiting for referral, are admitted to EICU faster and their treatments will be started promptly. Therefore, this retrospective study aimed to provide useful information about how an effective EICU should be, especially how to use them during pandemic periods.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
DIAGNOSTIC_TESTCOVID-19 diagnostic PCRNasopharyngeal swab samples will be analyzed by PCR for COVID-19 DNA existence.

Timeline

Start date
2020-03-10
Primary completion
2020-06-30
Completion
2020-07-14
First posted
2020-07-21
Last updated
2020-07-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04480060. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.