Taste and Smell Impairment in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients

Pinar Ay Sayin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smell Disorder; Taste Disorders; Coronavirus Infection

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04532632

3334-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluating the smell and taste perceptions of patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit with suspicion of Coronavirus disease-19 diagnosis with a survey study

Full description

Patients who were treated in the intensive care unit of Şişli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital with the diagnosis of Coronavirus disease-19 will be determined by scanning the hospital registry system. It was planned that patients discharged from the intensive care unit would be called by phone and their complaints about smell and taste disorders were evaluated with a questionnaire.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults between the ages of 18-80
• Agree to participate in the study
• Patients treated in the intensive care unit with the diagnosis of Coronavirus disease-19

Exclusion criteria

• Pre-existing smell and taste impairment
• The patients have no enough cooperation to answer the questionnaire
• Having additional diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer