Cardiac auscultation predicts mortality in elderly patients admitted for COVID-19.

Introduction: COVID-19 has had a great impact on the elderly population. All admitted patients underwent cardiac auscultation at the Emergency Department. However, to our knowledge, there is no literature that explains the implications of cardiac auscultation at the Emergency Department.

The deadliest lung lobe in COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study of elderly patients hospitalized for COVID-19.

Introduction: The relationship between which lung lobe is affected on the chest X-ray (CXR) performed at the Emergency Department (ED) and mortality from COVID-19 has not been studied. With this in mind, the present study aimed to discern which lung lobe was the one with the highest associated mortality rate in the elderly population.

Methods: Information was collected from the 2020 hospital admissions records of our hospital.

Ground-glass opacity on emergency department chest X-ray: a risk factor for in-hospital mortality and organ failure in elderly admitted for COVID-19.

Introduction: Ground-glass opacity is commonly seen on radiographic imaging tests of patients admitted for COVID-19. The main objective of this study is to determine if the presence of ground-glass opacity on chest X-rays carried out at the Emergency Department correlates with significantly higher mortality. A secondary objective is to clarify which characteristics are associated with those patients who presented ground-glass opacity.

Elderly Hospitalized for COVID-19 and Fever: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Introduction: COVID-19 has been responsible for countless deaths during this time.

Objectives: The main objective of this study was to determine if the referred fever of elderly patients admitted for COVID-19 was related to their mortality.

Material And Methods: Data were obtained from the 2020 hospital admissions records of the Hospital de San Juan de Alicante, Spain.

Elderly People with Dementia Admitted for COVID-19: How Different are They?

Background: Patients with a dementia diagnosis and COVID-19 sometimes manifest an atypical clinical picture. However, differences between elderly COVID-19 patients having dementia and those not having dementia have not been described yet. The in-hospital mortality and out-of-hospital mortality from both groups has not been reported.