September 2, 2020

Nasopharyngeal Viral Load Predicts Hypoxemia and Disease Outcome in Admitted COVID-19 Patients. Critical Care

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Clinical Characteristics and Health Care Setting

Keywords (Tags): clinical characteristics

• Initial SARS-CoV-2 viral load in nasopharyngeal samples was significantly higher among hospitalized patients who required mechanical ventilation and/or subsequently died (n=21) compared to non-mechanically ventilated patients who survived (n=149). Initial SARS-CoV-2 viral load has negatively associated with the lowest level of blood oxygen saturation recorded during hospitalization, but was not associated with other clinical parameters in this study that took place March-July, 2020.

Shlomai et al. (Sept 1, 2020). Nasopharyngeal Viral Load Predicts Hypoxemia and Disease Outcome in Admitted COVID-19 Patients. Critical Care. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-020-03244-3