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Thursday, 01/20/2022
Researchers from the Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS lead the CIBERSUCICOVID project, which is about to identify the risk factors and prognosis of the patients infected by COVID-19 ingressats to the ICUs since the pandemic is going to start in Spain
Researchers from the Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS lead the CIBERSUCICOVID project, which is about to identify the risk factors and prognosis of the patients infected by COVID-19 ingressats to the ICUs since the pandemic is going to start in Spain
Dr. Antoni Torres is the coordinator of the CIBERESUCICOVID project: Risk factors and prognosis of patients infected by COVID-19 and follow-up to any of the patients who have entered the Spanish ICUs.
The project is developed by researchers of the CIBER of Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES) and coordinated from the Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS lead by Dr Antoni Torres.
The project forms part of the investigations carried out through the COVID-19 Fund at the end of the year 2020 and managed by the ISCIII, and will receive a total financing of 1,750,000 euros. He has comptat, així mateix, with the support of the Spanish Society of Intensive Critical Medicine and Coronary Unit (SEMICYUC) and the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR), with the participation of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
The main results show that the mortality rate of the patients entered by COVID-19 to the Spanish ICUs will be 31%.
CIBERESUCICOVID started in February 2020 and ends on December 31, 2021, has had the participation of more than 5,700 patients, enrolled in 69 Spanish ICUs, and has analyzed 1,068 samples of blood for the studies of epigenetics and biomarkers. Among the conclusions, it is worth highlighting the death rate at any of the high hospital, since, according to the results, more than 1% of the patients who have been in intensive cures. In addition, the CIBERES researchers have also identified the acquisition of an intra-hospital (nosocomial) pneumonia during entry with a factor associated with the persistence of coronavirus symptoms after three months. “We have studied the effect of corticosteroids on in-hospital mortality, finding several phenotypes in which no benefit is observed depending on age, initial severity, inflammatory status, and the absence of lymphopenia. Our results, therefore, will help to define which serious patients should receive corticosteroids ”, explains Torres