ABSTRACT
Objective: The object of this study was to examine the accuracy in pre-hospital shock index (SI) for predicting intensive care unit (ICU) requirement and 30-day mortality among from COVID-19 patients transported to the hospital by ambulance. Method: All consecutive patients who were the age ≥18 years, transported to the emergency department (ED) by ambulance with a suspected or confirmed COVID-19 in the pre-hospital frame were included in the study. Four different cut-off points were compared (0.7, 0.8, 0.9, and 1.0) to examine the predictive performance of both the mortality and ICU requirement of the SI. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and the area under the curve (AUC) was employed to evaluate each cut-off value discriminatory for predicting 30-day mortality and ICU admission. Results: The total of 364 patients was included in this study. The median age in the study population was 69 (55-80), of which 196 were men and 168 were women. AUC values for 30-day mortality outcome were calculated as 0.672, 0.674, 0.755, and 0.626, respectively, for threshold values of 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 and 1.0. ICU admission was more likely for the patients with pre-hospital SI> 0.9. Similarly, the mortality rate was higher in patients with pre-hospital SI> 0.9. Conclusion: Early triage of COVID-19 patients will ensure efficient use of healthcare resources. The SI could be a helpful, fast and powerful tool for predicting mortality status and ICU requirements of adult COVID-19 patients. It was concluded that the most useful threshold value for the shock index in predicting the prognosis of COVID-19 patients is 0.9.
Fuente: Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
