COVID-19 has caused great harm since its epidemic, and has now spread worldwide. What is more worrying is that after statistics, the mortality rate of severe patients with COVID-19 is very high, and about half of the critically ill patients will die.
What kind of COVID-19 patients will become severe, and what kind of patients are prone to death? This is a question that everyone is very worried about and always has doubts.
Recently, experts from Wuhan Union Hospital of Hubei and experts from Harvard University summarized and analyzed the clinical characteristics of 65 patients who died of COVID-19, and the results were published in the top medical journal “The Lancet”.
By analyzing the data of these 65 dead patients, they found that if these critical patients were older or had cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases or other chronic diseases, they would easily die once they became severe. In addition, they found through the hematological test results of this group of patients that if patients had elevated white blood cells, elevated levels of lactate dehydrogenase, creatine kinase, and C-reactive protein might indicate a poor prognosis for the patients.
Through this study, we have given us a huge reminder. If patients infected with the COVID-19 virus are older than 60 years old, and the body has some cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes and other diseases, if blood tests are performed, Once you find that leukocytes, creatine kinase, lactate dehydrogenase, and C-reactive protein are elevated, you must pay attention.
First, avoid mild to severe. Secondly, for severe cases, early intervention is needed. Interventions are mainly antiviral and supportive treatments. If the above indicators are found to be elevated and the patient has difficulty breathing, mechanical ventilation should be used as early as possible to help patients survive the hypoxic stage, which may reduce mortality.