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Nuevo coronavirus (COVID-19) en población general y pediátrica: una revisión epidemiológica: Chile 2020

Since December 2019, the outbreak of a novel coronavirus SARS Cov-2 has been reported in Wuhan, China. Currently, the new coronavirus disease has been declared a worldwide pandemic. Compared to adults, reporting of cases in pediatric patients has been significant smaller. The objective of this article is...

Otro desafío de la naturaleza: el nuevo coronavirus virología y fisiopatología del SARS-COV-2

The recent outbreak of emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease (COVID-19) has been brought to global attention in the search of knowledge about the virus and its pathogenesis. The immune response is essential to control and eliminate the infection, however, maladjust...

Prevención y medidas de protección frente a la infección por SARS-COV-2

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has become a global health problem causing severe human respiratory infections. Countries have had to establish strategies to avoid the collapse of health systems. There has been reports describing that the human-to-human transmission is through droplet spread and contact routes a...

Urgencia pediátrica: la primera línea de atención hospitalaria del paciente pediátrico con virus SARS-COV-2: el desafío que tenemos

The emergence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has posed great challenges for both public health and medical clinical practice since the first cases reported in Wuhan, China. Coronavirus disease (CoVID-19) is a zoonotic disease caused by an RNA virus. SARS-CoV-2 is tran...

Clínica y diagnóstico SARS-COV-2

SARS-CoV-2 virus infection behaves differently in children versus adults, a significant percentage of children are asymptomatic or present mild symptoms. That situation makes diagnostic tests more important in this group. To date, pediatric patients behave less severely compared to adult patients. Among ...

Interpretación de patrones radiológicos sugerentes de COVID-19 en pediatría

The CoVID-19 pandemic has impacted in a lesser extent and intensity to patients younger than 15 years. The role of different imaging studies of lung involvement has been extensively addressed, from the first cases of severe pneumonia and respiratory distress syndrome in adults. There are fewer reports of...

COVID-19: manejo de cuidados intensivos pediátrico

The appearance of a new nosological entity named by the World Health Organization (WHO) as CoVID-19, which is causing a global pandemic, has meant a major medical challenge. This article tries to concentrate the most important aspects in the management pediatric of the severe CoVID-19 patient, reviewing ...

Ventilación mecánica prolongada en tiempos de pandemia / COVID-19

The CoVID-19 pandemic may limit health resources in the hospital setting for the management of seriously ill patients, mainly adults; For this reason, strategies should be established from the pediatric field, which can consequently have an impact on the number of beds usually assigned to the child popul...

Tratamiento de la infección por SARS-COV-2 en pediatría

In December 2019, a novel virus called SARS-CoV-2 emerged in China. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the world was undergoing a pandemic. With a massive outbreak of severe cases and deaths, there has been an urgency in the medical community to seek effective treatments to ...

Recomendaciones de Asociaciones Chilenas de Endoscopia Digestiva (ACHED), de Hepatología (ACHHEP) y la Agrupación Chilena de Trabajo en Enfermedad de Crohn y Colitis Ulcerosa (ACTECCU) para el manejo de pacientes con patologías gastrointestinales en pandemia SARS-CoV-2

Gastroenterol. latinoam; 31 (1), 2020