Publications by authors named "Sandra Gomez Paz"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how involvement of multiple organ systems in COVID-19 patients relates to in-hospital mortality and length of stay in the hospital.
- Data from 808 patients at a New York hospital revealed that the more organ systems affected, the higher the risk of death and longer hospital stays.
- Findings also indicate that certain lab values, like platelet and white blood cell counts, are significant indicators of mortality risk, highlighting the potential for these metrics to guide treatment decisions.
Background: The Acute Physiologic and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE-II), Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), and Model for End-Stage Liver Disease modified for Sodium concentration (MELD-Na) scores are validated to predict disease mortality. We studied the prognostic utility of these scoring systems in critically ill coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with liver injury.
Methods: This was a retrospective study of 291 confirmed COVID-19 and liver injury patients requiring intensive care unit level of care.
Background: Renal involvement in COVID-19 leads to severe disease and higher mortality. We study renal parameters in COVID-19 patients and their association with mortality and length of stay in hospital.
Methods: A retrospective study (n=340) of confirmed COVID-19 patients with renal involvement determined by the presence of acute kidney injury.
Introduction/background: Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) present with a spectrum of respiratory symptoms. There are no studies describing respiratory system involvement adjusted for other organ systems, oxygen saturation nadir, hospitalization days until respiratory involvement, proportion of days of respiratory system involvement, and persistent respiratory involvement at discharge in COVID-19 patients. We studied these parameters in COVID-19 patients that received respiratory therapy interventions and their association with mortality and length of stay (LOS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: We investigate the impact of blood glucose on mortality and hospital length of stay (HLOS) among COVID-19 patients.
Methods: Retrospective study of 456 patients with confirmed COVID-19 and glycemic dysregulation in the New York City area.
Results: We found that impaired glucose adjusted for other organs systems involved (OR:1.
Introduction: COVID-19 affects the hematologic system. This article evaluated the impact of hematologic involvement of different blood cell line parameters of white blood cells including absolute neutrophil count (ANC), hemoglobin, and platelets in COVID-19 patients and their association with hospital mortality and length of stay (LOS).
Methods: This was a retrospective study of 475 patients with confirmed positive COVID-19 infection and hematologic abnormalities in the metropolitan New York City area.