Health
COVID-19 with frailty, cardiac arrest may raise risk of death sharply – CIDRAP
For men with COVID-19, the risk of dying from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest rose 4.5-fold.
Two studies today suggest that COVID-19 patients who are very frail or have a cardiac arrest are two three times more likely to die than those not infected with the virus.
Frailty, COVID-19, and critical care
The first study, an observational investigation led by researchers at the University of Birmingham in England and published in Age and Ageing, involved 5,711 COVID-19 patients with a median age of 74 years at 55 hospitals in 12 countries.
The investigators found that the risk of death rose…
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