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Salvador Payán-Pernía1, Lucía Gómez Pérez1, Ángel F Remacha Sevilla1
1Haematology Department, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Sant Pau Research Institute, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Objective:
Early detection of patients with COVID-19 who will need mechanical invasive ventilation (MIV) may aid in delivering proper care and optimizing the use of limited resources.
Methods:
In this single-center retrospective observational study, we aimed to identify simple laboratory parameters that in combination with ferritin (a surrogate marker of severe inflammation) may help predict early (first 48 hours) MIV. A total of 160 patients with COVID-19 in whom serum ferritin, absolute lymphocyte count (ALC), platelet count, C-reactive protein (CRP), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) had been analyzed at admission were included.
Results:
We found that ferritin, LDH, ALC, and CRP predicted with 88% accuracy the probability of early MIV. Results indicated that LDH showed the greater area under the curve (AUC), with a value of 89.1%. Using the AUC, we established cutoff values for clinical application. Finally, we developed a classification tree based on LDH for its clinical use.
Conclusion:
Ferritin, LDH, ALC, and CRP predict with 88% accuracy the probability of early MIV.
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