Treatment Outline and Clinical Outcome of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients: Experiences from a Combined Military Hospital of Bangladesh

ABSTRACT Background Global knowledge of treatment and outcomes of COVID-19 has been evolving since the onset of the pandemic. Materials and Methods The objective of this cross-sectional study was to explore treatment and outcome of COVID-19 patients admitted in a Combined Military Hospital of Bangladesh. Data were collected from treatment records of patients of the CMH Bogura during the period of June 2020 to August 2020. Total 219 RT-PCR positive admitted patients were included as study population. Result Among 219 patients, 78.6% were male and 21.5% were female, mean age of patients was 34.3 ± 12.2. About14.6% patients had one or more comorbidities. Most (83.1%) of the admitted patients were diagnosed as mild cases. Antimicrobials were used in 98.8% cases, and frequent use of doxycycline (80.4%) and ivermectine (77.2%) was found. Anticoagulant and steroid therapy were used in 42.0% and 15.5% patients respectively. O 2 therapy was required in 6.0% cases and intensive care unit (ICU) support was needed in 2.3% cases.Duration of hospital stay was 12.1± 4.4 days and 100% of patients were discharged from hospital. There was no single mortality during the study period. Conclusion High prevalence of antimicrobials use was observed among the hospitalized COVID-19 patients in this single center study.Supportive care was effective with no incidence of mortality.