Airway Hygiene in COVID-19 Pneumonia: Treatment Responses of 3 Critically Ill Cruise Ship Employees

18 August 2020: Articles

Unusual clinical course, Unusual or unexpected effect of treatment, Educational Purpose (only if useful for a systematic review or synthesis)

Faryal I. Farooqi ^* , Richard C. Morgan ^** , Naveen Dhawan ^C , John Dinh ^A , George Yatzkan ^A , George Michel ^A

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.926596

Am J Case Rep 2020; 21:e926596

Table 1. Patient characteristics and prognostic factors.

Case #	Age (yrs)	Gender	BMI (kg/m2)	Comorbidities	Symptoms	Duration of symptoms prior to hospitalization (days)	Sofa score* (pts)
1	72	Male	28.4			5	11
2	65	Male	18.2	Diabetes mellitus type II		3	10
3	48	Male	23.5	None		7	9
WBC – white blood cell count; %LYMPH – percentage of lymphocytes; CRP – C-reactive protein. ^* Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score within 24 hours of hospital admission. The SOFA score is used to predict mortality in critically-ill patients. A higher SOFA score is associated with a greater mortality rate. Interpretation of SOFA score, (Points) Mortality: (0–9) ≤33%, (10–11) 50%, (12+) 95.2%.
Case #	Wbc (×10)	% Lymph	D-dimer (ng/ml)	Ferritin (ng/ml)	Crp (mg/dl)	X-ray findings	Duration of mechanical ventilation (days)	Death within 30 days from admission (yes/no)
1	13.1	5.3	676	916	16	Diffuse bilateral interstitial and airspace opacification	24	No
2	12.5	6.3	15335	7282	19.36	Diffuse interstitial prominence with bibasilar consolidation	10	No
3	7.6	4.9	785	3456.5	20.4	Bilateral multifocal airspace opacities	9	No
WBC – white blood cell count; %LYMPH – percentage of lymphocytes; CRP – C-reactive protein. ^* Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score within 24 hours of hospital admission. The SOFA score is used to predict mortality in critically-ill patients. A higher SOFA score is associated with a greater mortality rate. Interpretation of SOFA score, (Points) Mortality: (0–9) ≤33%, (10–11) 50%, (12+) 95.2%.