Mohammad Haghighi - Anesthesiology Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Alzahra Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
Hossein Khoshrang - Anesthesiology Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Alzahra Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
Siamak Rimaz - Anesthesiology Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Alzahra Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
Tofigh Yaghubi Kalurazi - Department of Health, Nutrition and Infectious Disease, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran

Assessing the severity of the disease at the time of hospitalization can reduce the mortality of patients with coronavirus disease ۲۰۱۹ (COVID-۱۹). For this stance, various scoring systems have been described to predict mortality rates. Sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) is one of the scoring systems which have been used in this study. In order to calculate the SOFA score, demographic and characteristics information, clinical status, and laboratory findings were recorded from ۱۵۴ patients with COVID-۱۹, who have been admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for a period of ۶ months. SOFA score was calculated in three time periods at the time of hospitalization, ۷۲ hours after hospitalization, and the last day of hospitalization. Based on the outcome of the disease (death or recovery), patients were divided into two groups, and the results were analyzed in both groups. Statistical analysis has represented that the SOFA score was significantly higher in patients who died to compare with recovered ones in all time periods. Our findings suggest that SOFA scoring system can be used to predict mortality rate in ICU admitted COVID-۱۹ patients.

COVID-۱۹, SOFA score, ICU, Mortality