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January 19, 2023
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Severe infection due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus: Experience of a tertiary hospital with COVID-19 patients during the 2020 pandemic

Publicated to:Medicina Intensiva. 44 (9): 525-533 - 2020-12-01 44(9), DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2020.05.018

Authors: Rodriguez, A; Moreno, G; Gomez, J; Carbonell, R; Pico-Plana, E; Benavent Bofill, C; Sanchez Parrilla, R; Trefler, S; Esteve Pitarch, E; Canadell, L; Teixido, X; Claverias, L; Bodi, M

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Hosp Univ Tarragona Joan XXIII, Dept Enfermeria, Tarragona, Spain - Author
Hosp Univ Tarragona Joan XXIII, Lab Cent Area Biol Mol, Tarragona, Spain - Author
Hosp Univ Tarragona Joan XXIII, Lab Cent Urgencias, Tarragona, Spain - Author
Hosp Univ Tarragona Joan XXIII, Serv Farm Clin, Tarragona, Spain - Author
Hosp Univ Tarragona Joan XXIII, Serv Med Intens, Tarragona, Spain - Author
Hosp Univ Tarragona Joan XXIII, Serv Microbiol Clin, Tarragona, Spain - Author
URV, IIPSV, CIBERES, Tarragona, Spain - Author
URV, IISPV, UCI23 Data Anal, Tarragona, Spain - Author
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Abstract

Objective: To describe the clinical and respiratory characteristics of a cohort of 43 patients with COVID-19 after an evolutive period of 28 days.Design: A prospective, single-center observational study was carried out.Setting: Intensive care.Patients: Patients admitted due to COVID-19 and respiratory failure.Interventions: None.Variables: Automatic recording was made of demographic variables, severity parameters, laboratory data, assisted ventilation (HFO: high-flow oxygen therapy and IMV: invasive mechanical ventilation), oxygenation (PaO2, PaO2/FiO(2)) and complications. The patients were divided into three groups: survivors (01), deceased (G2) and patients remaining under admission (03). The chi-squared test or Fisher exact test (categorical variables) was used, along with the Mann Whitney U-test or Wilcoxon test for analyzing the differences between medians. Statistical significance was considered for p<0.05.Results: A total of 43 patients were included (G1-28 [65.1%]; G2= 10 [23.3%] and G3=5 [11.6%]), with a mean age of 65 years (range: 52-72), 62% males, APACHE II 18 (15-24), SOFA 6 (4-7). Arterial hypertension (30.2%) and obesity (25.6%) were the most frequent comorbidities. High -flow oxygen therapy was used in 62.7% of the patients, with failure in 85%. In turn, 95% of the patients required IMV and 85% received ventilation in prone decubitus. In the general population, initial PaO2/FiO(2) improved after 7 days (165 [125-210] vs.194 [153-285]; p=0.02), in the same way as in G1 (164 [125-197] vs. 207 [160-294]; p=0.07), but not in G2 (163 [95-197] vs. 135 [85-177]). No bacterial coinfection was observed. The incidence of IMV-associated pneumonia was high (13 episodes/1000 days of IMV).Conclusions: Patients with COVID-19 require early IMV, a high frequency of ventilation in prone decubitus, and have a high incidence of failed HFO. The lack of improvement of PaO2/FiO(2) at 7 days could be a prognostic marker. (C) 2020 Elsevier Espana, S.L.U. y SEMICYUC. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Covi d-19Covid-19Mechanical ventilationMectiarlical ventilationRespiratory failure

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Medicina Intensiva, and although the journal is classified in the quartile Q3 (Agencia WoS (JCR)), its regional focus and specialization in Critical Care Medicine, give it significant recognition in a specific niche of scientific knowledge at an international level.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.02. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 1.32 (source consulted: FECYT Feb 2024)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-26, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 25
  • Scopus: 27

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-26:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 226.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 346 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 16.35.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 5 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9289774

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Rodríguez Oviedo, Alejandro Hugo) and Last Author (Bodi Saera, Maria Amparo).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Rodríguez Oviedo, Alejandro Hugo.