Publications by authors named "A Alquezar"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are managed in emergency departments when they present with acute heart failure (AHF), comparing them to AHF patients without COPD.
- It analyzes data from 21,694 AHF patients, focusing on demographics, clinical characteristics, and differences in treatment approaches between the two groups over a ten-year period.
- Findings reveal that COPD patients were younger with more comorbidities, had different triggers and management strategies in emergencies, and exhibited slightly higher in-hospital (8.1%) and 30-day (11.0%) mortality rates compared to non-COPD patients (7.5% and 10.0%, respectively).
Objectives: To study baseline factors associated with hypo- and hypernatremia in older patients attended in emergency departments (EDs) and explore the association between these dysnatremias and indicators of severity in an emergency.
Material And Methods: We included patients attended in 52 Spanish hospital EDs aged 65 years or older during a designated week. All included patients had to have a plasma sodium concentration on record.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to investigate the relationship between air pollutants and the severity of decompensated heart failure in patients attending emergency departments in Spain.
- A total of 5,292 patients, primarily elderly and mostly women, were analyzed, with data collected on pollutants like SO, NO, and CO, among others.
- The results indicated that only sulfur dioxide (SO) showed a linear correlation with the severity of heart failure, particularly in increasing the likelihood of hospitalization, while other pollutants did not demonstrate clear associations.
The HEFESTOS scale was developed in 14 Spanish primary care centres and validated in 9 primary care centres of other European countries. It showed good performance to predict death/hospitalisation during the first 30 days after an episode of acute heart failure (AHF), with c-statistics of 0.807/0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Social vulnerability is a known determinant of health in respiratory diseases. Our aim was to identify whether there are socio-demographic factors among COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Spain and their potential impact on health outcomes during the hospitalization.
Methods: A multicentric retrospective case series study based on administrative databases that included all COVID-19 cases admitted in 19 Spanish hospitals from 1 March to 15 April 2020.