Open Access<p>Impacts of Comorbid Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Congestive Heart Failure on Prognosis of Critically Ill Patients</p>
Author(s) -
Ying Dai,
Shaoyun Qin,
Huaqin Pan,
Tianyu Chen,
Dachen Bian
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/international journal of copd
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2005
pISSN - 1176-9106
DOI - 10.2147/copd.s275573
Subject(s) - medicine , heart failure , pulmonary disease , critically ill , cardiology , intensive care medicine , copd , disease
Comorbid congestive heart failure (CHF) was associated with worse prognosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), while few studies specially investigated critically ill patients. This study investigated the associations between comorbid COPD with or without CHF and prognosis of patients admitted to intensive care units (ICU).