Table 3.

COVID-19 complications

Characteristics	Total (n = 128)	Deaths caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection (n = 109)	Death with SARS-CoV-2 infection (n = 19)	p
Days in hospital until death, median (IQR), days	6 (3–10)	7 (3–13)	5 (1–9)	0.035
ARDS	93 (77%)	93 (85%)	0 (0%)	< 0.001
Hyperinflammation	93 (77%)	86 (79%)	7 (37%)	< 0.001
Septic shock	12 (9%)	11 (10%)	1 (5%)	0.505
Pulmonary embolism	3 (2%)	3 (3%)	0 (0%)	0.464
Place of death
Hospital ward	102 (80%)	83 (76%)	19 (100%)
Intensive care unit	26 (20%)	26 (24%)	0 (0%)	0.013
Main cause of death
ARDS or severe lung injury (> 50% lung involvement in X-ray) caused by COVID	104 (81%)	104 (95%)	0 (0%)	< 0.001
Pulmonary thromboembolism	2 (2%)	2 (2%)	0 (0%)
Sepsis shock due to COVID	3 (2%)	3 (3%)	0 (0%)
Sepsis caused by bacterial infection without lung injury	3 (3%)	0 (0%)	3 (16%)
Wasting associated with age	10 (8%)	0 (0%)	10 (53%)
Heart failure without acute cardiac injury	2 (2%)	0 (0%)	2 (11%)
Kidney failure without lung injury or shock	2 (2%)	0 (0%)	2 (11%)
Bronchoaspiration	1 (1%)	0 (0%)	1 (5%)
Gastrointestinal bleeding	1 (1%)	0 (9%)	1 (5%)
Week of death
18–24 March	11 (9%)	7 (6%)	4 (21%)	0.042
25–31 March	37 (29%)	31 (28%)	6 (32%)
1–7 April	26 (20%)	22 (20%)	4 (21%)
8–14 April	21 (16%)	18 (17%)	3 (16%)
15–21 April	17 (13%)	16 (15%)	1 (5%)
> 21 April	16 (13%)	15 (14%)	1 (5%)

Bold indicate p values that achieve statistical significance (p < 0.05)

Deaths caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection: patients whose death was caused directly by SARS-CoV-2 infection. Death with SARS-CoV-2 infection: patients where SARS-CoV-2 acted as a precipitating factor to decompensate other chronic or acute pathologies that were the main cause of death

ARDS acute respiratory distress syndrome