Posted on 10/01/2021 7:26:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
A drop in certain heart electrical activity readings was found to precede COVID-19 death by around 52 hoursvoenkor/Depositphotos _______________________________________________________________________________________
Researchers from The Mount Sinai Hospital have found changes to electrical activity in the heart can help predict which hospitalized COVID-19 patients are more likely to decline and die. The biomarker is easily measurable and potentially predicts death several days in advance.
When hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients it can be challenging for doctors to work out where to best focus their limited attention and resources. A number of blood-based biomarkers have been found to help assess those patients most at risk of severe disease decline.
But blood tests take time to be collected and analyzed. This new biomarker can be measured using a simple electrocardiogram (EKG) machine, at a patient’s bedside. And the researchers claim it can predict whether a patient is likely to die at least two days in advance.
A retrospective investigation of health records from 140 COVID-19 patients revealed diminishing QRS waveforms were an indication of a patient declining in 74 percent of cases.
The criteria developed by the Mount Sinai team is dubbed LoQRS, and they propose it to be an effective way of triaging those patients most likely to decline. The median time to death from the first LoQRS reading detected in the study was 52 hours.
“Our study shows diminished waveforms on EKGs over the course of COVID-19 illness can be an important tool for health care workers caring for these patients, allowing them to catch rapid clinical changes over their hospital stay and intervene more quickly,” says Joshua Lampert, senior author on the new study. “With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continuing to rise again, EKGs may be helpful for hospitals to use when caring for these patients before their condition gets dramatically worse.”
Interestingly, the researchers also found LoQRS measures were effective in detecting those patients with influenza who were most likely to die. The median time to death from the first LoQRS measure in influenza patients, however, was around six days. The researchers point out this indicates COVID-19 is a much more virulent disease than influenza.
As LoQRS measures can only be detected over time across several EKG tests, Lambert proposes EKG measurements are taken for all COVID-19 patients when they are initially admitted.
“When it comes to caring for COVID-19 patients, our findings suggest it may be beneficial not only for health care providers to check an EKG when the patient first arrives at the hospital, but also follow-up EKGs during their hospital stay to assess for LoQRS, particularly if the patient has not made profound clinical progress,” says Lampert. “If LoQRS is present, the team may want to consider escalating medical therapy or transferring the patient to a highly monitored setting such as an intensive care unit (ICU) in anticipation of declining health.”
The new study was published in the American Journal of Cardiology.
Source: Mount Sinai
These are not mutually exclusive categories, of course, and many doctors are both.
Simply being in the hospital for "treatment" of Covid is a pretty good predictor of death.
No, if you're heart hasn't beat in three days and you're still freeping, I think you no longer need it.
The virus caused a dear friend’s heart to stop. 30 min of chest compressions did no good.
Hope they can find the core issue and fix it.
Like everyone else, they follow directions.
It doesn't count as a hospital death if ya ain't in the hospital.
OTOH, if they quickly put you on a ventilator, they can collect the $35,000 COVID bonus...
Not anymore...
Then will they be given antivirals that work?
hi...i’m your doctor today...looks like you’ve got a week. want anything special for dinner..
When one walks into an ER up to the nurses admitting station after giving insurance and reason for visit one has arrived at the triage station, and it is called exactly that and the nurses are called triage nurses. They check your vitals, symptoms, extent of wounds if any to determine the urgency of treatment....probably not needed in rural or sparsely populated areas...urban and denser suburban areas where patient pileups and waiting times are increased.
bkmk
“Are these doctors corrupt, or are they merely incompetent?”
YES!
-PJ
You got it all wrong. Timing is everything.
If they send you home with a portable EKG machine and tell you to come back immediately after your QRS waveforms crash they have none of the expense but still get to keep the $45K nut from the FedGov.
Perfect.
The biomarker is this:
Made the mistake of going to the Emergency Room of a hospital and allowing the staff there to get their slimy tentacles on you.
Pro Tip: They won’t need the whole three days.
All were murdered by intubation you pbony.
phony
OK enlighten us on who murder was committed. In answering, please refer to standard definition of murder, and how intubation for oxygenation is murder.
Here is a hint because I am pretty sure you only know how to repeat things that other people say with cut and paste instead of actually delving into the words you use.
Murder: The killing of a human being by a sane person, with intent, malice, aforethought (prior intention to kill the particulare victim or anyone who gets in the way) and with no legal excuse or authority
So, you claim intubating is murder. Do you have any rudimentary understanding of why someone is intubated. Please answer in terms of Pa/Fi gradient, oxygen dissociation, and oxygen delivery to vital organs.
If you stopped with the coloring books and idiotic parroting of things that other people say that is complete nonsense, and actually try to learn a little, you will have a better grasp on life at large.
Please seek help.
A nurse I met during the height of the pandemic said the only COVID patient she knew about who survived intubation extubated himself. Ask me how this happened, you phony.
How did this happen, you phony.
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