Key findings from the largest ICU case study to date, just released: 1591 Covid Patients in Lombardy

A study was just published describing 1591 ICU Covid patients in Lombardy, Italy, the largest study of its kind so far.

Annotations by @PulmCrit

Some key stats:

• 82% of the patients were male
• median age was 63 years
• 68% had at least one comorbidity, with hypertension being the most common
• 88% of the patients for which there was this kind of data were intubated (1150 total)
• 58% remain in the ICU
• 16% have been discharged from the ICU
• 26% died during the study
• median length of stay of those who died in the ICU was 7 days
• median length of stay for those who were discharged from the ICU was 8 days

@PulmCrit speculates about metabolic syndrome comorbidities

It’s interesting to note the proportion of proned patients here in light of our prior post on Luciano Gattinoni

In terms of limitations, data weren’t available for some of the patients and th sample of patients, being from the ICU, had a lot of respiratory distress from the start.