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...
Infecciones por Coronavirus/prevención & control,
Infecciones por Coronavirus/transmisión,
Neumonía Viral/prevención & control,
Neumonía Viral/transmisión,
Betacoronavirus/patogenicidad,
Pandemias,
Desinfección,
Vacunas Virales,
Desinfección de las Manos,
Máscaras,
Dispositivos de Protección Respiratoria
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Díaz M, Alex;
Cortés G, Pablo;
Heredia P, Carolina;
González D, Robinson;
Silva F, Verónica;
Bufadel G, María Ester;
Araya J, Raúl;
Moscoso J, Felipe;
Donoso G, Felipe;
Montenegro U, Cristián.
The outbreak of COVID-19 disease has recently spread from its original place in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, to the entire world, and has been declared to be a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. All countries in America, in particular Chile, show an important increase in COVID-19 c...
Endoscopía del Sistema Digestivo/normas,
Infecciones por Coronavirus/epidemiología,
Betacoronavirus,
Infecciones por Coronavirus/prevención & control,
Neumonía Viral/prevención & control,
Factores de Riesgo,
Unidades Hospitalarias/normas,
Guías de Práctica Clínica como Asunto,
Neumonía Viral/epidemiología,
Pandemias,
Control de Infecciones/métodos
Agüero L, Carlos;
Quera P, Rodrigo;
Slimming A, Joselyn;
Pizarro J, Gonzalo;
Simian M, Daniela;
Álvarez L, Manuel;
Pavez O, Carolina;
Alfaro P, Ignacio;
Vergara A, María;
Hernández P, Regina;
Lubascher C, Jaime.
The new Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) appeared in China in December 2019. Since then and until April 2020 it spread worldwide affecting more than three million people. Its exponential rise is still growing all over the world, taking thousands of lives. SARS-CoV-2 is very contagious, person to person, by dropl...
