Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism in COVID-19 Positive… : Critical Care Explorations
ounger than 18 years old, admitted to a PICU with either PE or COVID-19 diagnoses. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Among the PE-positive subgroups, from January 2020 to December 2021, 78 patients (14%) had an acute COVID-19 infection. The prevalence of PE pre-pandemic period (2018–2019) was 0.19% and for pandemic period (2020–2021) was 0.26% (p < 0.001). During the pandemic period, the prevalence of PE for COVID-negative patients was 0.21% and for COVID-positive patients was 1.01% (p < 0.001). The result shows that the chance to develop PE for COVID-positive patients is 4.8 times that for COVID-negative patients during the pandemic. In the subgroup of the PE-positive patients, 55.1% were Black or African American in the COVID-positive group and 19% in the COVID-negative group (p < 0.001). A multivariable logistic regression showed that race was an independent risk factor for COVID in PE-positive patients. CONCLUSIONS: Our study demonstrates a significant increase in
