Clinical trial NCT04388670: Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19
Official title: Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of Patients With COVID-19 Admitted in Italian Intensive Care Units: a Multicentric Retrospective-prospective Cohort Study.
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: COVID-19
Critical Illness
Lead sponsor: Policlinico Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-05-14
Enrollment: 1500
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Adult patients with COVID-19 admitted in Intensive Care Units.

Brief summary: Objective of this observational multicentric retrospective-prospective study is to describe the number and the characteristics of patients with Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) for SARS-CoV2 positivity admitted to Intensive Care Units during the first 6 months of epidemic.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adulthood
* Informed consent obtained

Exclusion Criteria:

* No informed consent obtained

Primary outcomes:
measure: Overall number and characteristics of patients with COVID-19 in ICU
timeFrame: 22nd February - 22nd August 2020
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Milan
country: Italy
facility: Fondazione IRCCS Ca'Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
Study officials:
affiliation: Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
name: Giacomo Grasselli, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Scaravilli V, Guzzardella A, Madotto F, Beltrama V, Muscatello A, Bellani G, Monti G, Greco M, Pesenti A, Bandera A, Grasselli G. Impact of dexamethasone on the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients: a propensity-matched cohort study. Crit Care. 2022 Jun 13;26(1):176. doi: 10.1186/s13054-022-04049-2.
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citation: Grasselli G, Scaravilli V, Mangioni D, Scudeller L, Alagna L, Bartoletti M, Bellani G, Biagioni E, Bonfanti P, Bottino N, Coloretti I, Cutuli SL, De Pascale G, Ferlicca D, Fior G, Forastieri A, Franzetti M, Greco M, Guzzardella A, Linguadoca S, Meschiari M, Messina A, Monti G, Morelli P, Muscatello A, Redaelli S, Stefanini F, Tonetti T, Antonelli M, Cecconi M, Foti G, Fumagalli R, Girardis M, Ranieri M, Viale P, Raviglione M, Pesenti A, Gori A, Bandera A. Hospital-Acquired Infections in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19. Chest. 2021 Aug;160(2):454-465. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2021.04.002. Epub 2021 Apr 20.
citation: Langer T, Brioni M, Guzzardella A, Carlesso E, Cabrini L, Castelli G, Dalla Corte F, De Robertis E, Favarato M, Forastieri A, Forlini C, Girardis M, Grieco DL, Mirabella L, Noseda V, Previtali P, Protti A, Rona R, Tardini F, Tonetti T, Zannoni F, Antonelli M, Foti G, Ranieri M, Pesenti A, Fumagalli R, Grasselli G; PRONA-COVID Group. Prone position in intubated, mechanically ventilated patients with COVID-19: a multi-centric study of more than 1000 patients. Crit Care. 2021 Apr 6;25(1):128. doi: 10.1186/s13054-021-03552-2.