Clinical profile, intensive care unit course, and outcome of patients admitted in intensive care unit with chikungunya

Conclusions: Patients with chikungunya fever may require ICU admission for organ failure. They are generally elderly patients with underlying comorbidities. Despite aggressive resuscitation and organ support, these patients are at high risk of death. Admission APACHE II score and need for dialysis may predict patients at higher risk of death.

Source: Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine - January 15, 2018 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Anish Gupta Deven Juneja Omender Singh Suneel Kumar Garg Varun Arora Desh Deepak Source Type: research