A STUDY ON THE OUTCOME OF COVID-19 PATIENTS OF VARYING SEVERITY BASED ON VARIOUS MODALITIES OF OXYGEN SUPPLY

Introduction: The COVID 19 disease known to cause by severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2(SARSCoV2) causes various symptoms among infected individuals of varying severity. Patients can be categorised as having
mild, moderate or severe disease based on their oxygen saturation at room air at the time of presentation.The outcome of the patients on various
modalities was asseseed. It isa restrospective observational study done Materials And Methods: in government general hospital, Vijayawada,in
100 patients between august 2020 to October 2020. Out of 100 selected cases 63 pat Results: ients were males and 37 were females. Mean age of
patients57.96years Out of 100 cases 80 cases were severe and 20 cases were moderately severe. All 20 patients who belong to moderate severity
received O2via face mask and all were discharged successfully. Among 80 patients who were severely affected 51 patients received O2 via face
mask, 26 patients were on non invasive ventilation andt three patients on mechanical ventilator. The COVID-19 pandemic due to Discussion:
SARS-CoV-2 has lead to substantial increase in hospitalisations for pneumonia with multi organ dysfunction. This infection is spread primarily
via respiratory droplets. The most common symptoms are fever, dry cough and shortness of breath. Large number of infected patients were
given oxygen supplementation by several means including oxygen via face mask, non invasive ventilation and mechanicalventilation. Along
with oxygen support patients were also treated with antivirals, anticoagulants, steroids and other supportive treatment measures in various
centers. Covid 19 is a pandemic spread by SARS CoV 2 which mainly infects respi Conclusion: ratory system and hypoxia is one of the primary
cause that leads to death and multiple organ dysfunction.According to this study patients with severe disease at the time of presentation has less
favourable outcome than moderate cases.