Mortality among adult hospitalized patients during the first wave and second wave of COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary care center in India

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Submitted: July 27, 2021
Accepted: September 10, 2021
Published: October 11, 2021
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The similarities and differences between the mortality patterns of the two waves in India remain largely unknown. This was a retrospective study of medical records conducted in the COVID data center of our hospital This study analyzed data of patients who died in the month of August, 2020 to October 2020 (one month before and after the peak of first wave i.e., 16th September, 2020) and April 2021 to June 2021 (one month before and after the peak of second wave i.e., 6th May, 2021), corresponding to an equal part of the pandemic during first (2020) and second (2021) wave. Out of 1893 patients in the study, 764 patients were admitted during the first wave and 1129 patients during the second wave of pandemic. In total, 420 patients died during the entire study period. Of those, 147 (35%) deaths occurred during the first wave and 273 (65%) during the second wave, reflecting a case fatality rate (CFR) of 19.2% during the first wave and a CFR of 24.18%. There were no significant differences in the age group, gender, presenting complaints, duration of stay and comorbidities. However, the deceased COVID-19 patients had an increase in case fatality rate, average duration of symptoms from onset to hospital admission (DOSHA) and a major shift from MODS to ARDS being the cause of death during the second wave of pandemic. This study demonstrates increased CFR, average DOSHA and a paradigm shift to ARDS as cause of mortality during the second peak of the pandemic. It is necessary to remain vigilant of newer COVID-19 variants of concern, follow COVID-19 appropriate behaviors and keep emphasizing on care of high-risk groups including patients with comorbidities and elderly population to prevent mortality.

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Nath, Ravindra, Neeraj Kumar Gupta, Amandeep Jaswal, Sparsh Gupta, Navjot Kaur, Santvana Kohli, Anirudh saxena, Pranav Ish, Rohit Kumar, Poornima Tiwari, Mukesh Kumar, Jugal Kishore, Geeta Yadav, Fellisha Marwein, and Nitesh Gupta. 2021. “Mortality Among Adult Hospitalized Patients During the First Wave and Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic at a Tertiary Care Center in India”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 92 (2). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2021.2034.