Barotrauma and its complications in COVID-19 patients: a retrospective study at tertiary care hospital of Eastern India

Abstract

The 350 patients in the study had an average age of 55.9 (13.5) years, with 270 (77.14%) of them being male. Data on demographics, clinical care, and biochemistry are shown in Table 1. Throughout their hospital stay, all PPV patients were divided into two groups. The first group included 48/350 (13.7 percent) individuals who acquired PBT after receiving any form of PPV. The second group consisted of 302 individuals (86.28%) who had received any type of PPV but had not acquired PBT. Out of 350 patients who received PPV, 190 patients (54.28%) received IPPV, and 30 patients developed PBT. On the other hand, NIPPV was given to 160 patients (45.71 percent). Ninety patients got BiPAP, and 70 patients received CPAP, with 10 and 8 patients developing PBT, respectively, after receiving NIPPV