COVID-19 and Shock: A Cautionary Tale for Elderly Patients From a Pooled Analysis

• Authors: R Desai, Atlanta VA Med Ctr; S Singh, University of Amsterdam; T Parekh, George Mason University; Sonali Sachdeva, Lady Hardinge Medical College; Lekshmi Kumar, Emory University; Rajesh Sachdeva, Emory University; Gautam Kumar, Emory University
• Journal Title: Annals of Emergence Medicine
• Volume: Volume 75, Number 6
• Publisher: Mosby-Elsevier | 2020-06-01, Pages 789-791
• Type of Work: Article | Final Publisher PDF
• Publisher DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2020.04.014
• Subjects: Health Sciences, Health Care Management; Health Sciences, Epidemiology; Biology, Bioinformatics; Biology, Biostatistics; Health Sciences, Public Health
• Keywords: Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Emergency Medicine

Abstract

The shocking scale of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections is worrisome, with more than 1 million confirmed cases and greater than 50,000 reported deaths across the globe by the end of March 2020. The unprecedented challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic have overwhelmed the health care system, strained health care workers, and raised a dire need to collect, analyze, and interpret real-time data to expedite understanding the etiopathogenesis, risk factors, and prognosis of COVID-19 and ways to curtail overall mortality rate.