Intensive care admission rate due to COVID-2109

Background With emergence of coronavirus-2019 or COVID-19 a diverse number of people have been infected worldwide in a short time, with no specific treatment or vaccine. Infected patients are in danger of creating respiratory failure that necessitating admission to intensive care units (ICU). Thus intensivists (ICU providers) and anesthesiologists must be ready for the newcomers to ICU and to sustain care for them. Method We performed a narrative review via searching in three databases PubMed, Google Scholar and Embase for all studies that mentioned all intensive care admission rates for who infected with coronavirus 2019, manual searching also completed. All the selected reviews were limited to the English language and date also. Result Five researches referred to the rate of ICU admission, about 9.3% of all cases. Male patients were more comparing to female (59% to 41%), median age range were (40-56) years, cases with co-existing diseases range from 23.7%-51%, with ICU admission rate being 5%-32%. An immense number of patients received oxygen therapy (41.3%-76.81%), while 6.7% of cases were under non-invasive ventilation with range from 4.9%-24% and just 3.6% of patients who received invasive ventilation with range from 3.3%-12.32%. Finally the mortality rate was 2.6%. Conclusion The novel virus, COVID-19 has shown to more likely affect older male with underlying conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and others, a point that could expose them to fatal respiratory symptoms, including respiratory failure. So a quite enough of patients might need oxygen support and ICU admission.