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cord-349263-mmfrqyrc	Rodríguez, A.	Severe infection due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus: Experience of a tertiary hospital with COVID-19 patients during the 2020 pandemic	2020-11-09		.txt	text/plain	4180	229	56	1 Patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 can develop serious viral pneumonia known as COVID-19, characterized by severe respiratory failure, and which has placed a heavy burden on Spanish Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and the national healthcare system as a whole. Taking into account that both the characteristics of the patients admitted to the ICU due to COVID-19 and the care received ---and hence the resulting crude mortality rate ---can differ considerably among different centers 7 and countries, 3,5,7---10 the present study was carried out to describe the clinical and respiratory characteristics of a series of consecutive patients with severe COVID-19 in a Spanish tertiary hospital, differentiating the subjects according to ICU outcome after 28 days. A prospective, observational cohort study was made, including all consecutive patients admitted to the Department of Intensive Care Medicine (DICM) from 14 March to 16 April 2020 with a confirmed diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection, based on RT-PCR testing of nasopharyngeal swab and/or bronchial aspirate samples according to the criteria of the WHO.	./cache/cord-349263-mmfrqyrc.txt	./txt/cord-349263-mmfrqyrc.txt