Clinical Characteristics and Short-Term Outcomes of Patients with Severe COVID-19

We Report the demographic characteristics, laboratory findings, vital signs and outcomes of 19 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients who admitted to ICU;from 15 Feb to 15 March 2020 in Arak, Markazi Province, Iran Data showed that the most common laboratory findings on first day of ICU admission, were leukocytosis (52 6%), neutrophilia (73 6%), lymphopenia (100%), anemia (100%), hyperglycemia (78 95), increased levels of INR (100%);AST (66 66%), ALT (50%) and LDH (100%) 36 36% and 45 45% of patients had elevated total and direct bilirubin, respectively but all of patients had normal range of ALK-p (Table 1) In term of vital signs (3 first days);SBP, DBP and PR did not have significant changes but O2 saturation increased from 82 9 % to 93 % and the number of mechanical ventilated patients increased from 36 8% to 73 3% © 2021, Institute of Medico-Legal Publications All rights reserved