Trajectories of vital signs in patients with COVID-19
Marco A. F. Pimentel, Oliver Redfern, Robert Alan Hatch, Duncan Young, Lionel Tarassenko, Peter Watkinson
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has placed a huge strain on UK hospitals. Early studies suggest that patients can deteriorate quickly after admission to hospital. The aim of this study was to model changes in vital signs for patients hospitalised with COVID-19. METHODS: measured at discharge in the VI cohort as the model of normality, we also combined individual vital signs into a single novelty score. RESULTS: of 0.35). Prior to the primary outcome, blood pressure remained within normal range, and there was only a small rise in heart rate. The novelty score showed that patients with COVID-19 deteriorated more rapidly that patients with viral pneumonia. CONCLUSIONS: , but only minor abnormalities in other vital signs. This has potential implications for the ability of early warning scores to identify deteriorating patients.