Publications by authors named "A Vuagnat"
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- - This study compared critically ill patients with COVID-19 and influenza who were admitted to the ICU in France, focusing on patient characteristics and outcomes during a pre-vaccination period.
- - Results showed that COVID-19 patients had higher mortality (25%) compared to influenza patients (21%), and while they generally required less invasive mechanical ventilation, they had longer hospital stays.
- - Despite younger age and fewer comorbidities, COVID-19 patients experienced worse outcomes, indicating that COVID-19 may lead to more severe illness and longer recovery in an ICU setting than influenza.
Introduction: Studies regarding coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were mainly performed in the initial wave, but some small-scale data points to prognostic differences for patients in successive waves. We therefore aimed to study the impact of time on prognosis of ICU-admitted COVID-19 patients.
Method: We performed a national retrospective cohort study, including all adult patients hospitalized in French ICUs from March 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021, and identified three surge periods.
Background: The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic confronted healthcare systems around the world with unprecedented organizational challenges, particularly regarding the availability of intensive care unit (ICU) beds. One strategy implemented in France to alleviate healthcare pressure during the first COVID-19 wave was inter-hospital transfers of selected ICU patients from overwhelmed areas towards less saturated ones. At the time, the impact of this transfer strategy on patient mortality was unknown.
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