Clinico-demographic profile of covid 19 mortality in a tertiary care centre of Madhya Pradesh

Present study was conducted in ABV Government Medical college, which was the only recognised covid hospital by Government of M.P., with tertiary care facilities in Vidisha district. This study is a record based cross sectional study done to determine various clinico-demographic profile and co-morbidities associated with mortality, among covid 19 patients who died after initiation of treatment in IPD. Mean age affected was 56.64 yrs with slight preponderance of males. Almost 64.22% patient who died were suffering from comorbidities in whom the common were hypertension (11%), diabetes mellitus (9.17%), coronary artery disease (11%), renal involvement (5.5%), obesity (4.58%) and respiratory involvement (8.25%) cases. Common signs and symptoms were fever (92%), cough and cold (90%), dyspnoea (84%), fatigue and myalgia (71%) cases. Oxygen saturation was below 80 mm of Hg in 23.8% patients and mean duration of hospital stay hospital was 4.0 days. Respiratory support in the form of Bi-pap and C-pap was needed in 17.43% cases and endotracheal intubation was needed in 7.33% cases. Treatment of cardiogenic shock was given in 22.01% cases.