CLINICAL PROFILE OF COVID-19 PATIENTS ADMITTED IN A TERTIARY CARE COVID HOSPITAL-AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY

BACKGROUND: Since the origin of Covid-19, a plethora of symptoms have been described in the past few months, which indicate involvement of multiple systems with much more impact on the respiratory system. METHODOLOGY: We retrospectively evaluated from the medical records of 100 Covid-19 patients diagnosed with RT-PCR. It was a cross-sectional observational study of Covid-19 patients admitted in our tertiary COVID care hospital, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh during the period of two months i.e.,01-04-2020 to 31-05-2020.RESULTS: We observed the different clinical symptoms with varying frequency in Covid-19 patients. In our study the clinical symptoms in the descending order of frequency were fever (59%), cough (48%), diarrhoea (6%), dyspnoea (4%), running nose (3%), headache (3%), chest pain (1%). These symptoms are not specific to covid-19 but similar to those found in other viral infections.CONCLUSION: Based on clinical picture, disease has been classified as mild, moderate and severe. More than 80% patients have mild disease and will recover.14% will have severe disease and 5% will progress to respiratory failure, shock and multiorgan dysfunction.1-2% are fatal.