ABSTRACT One of the struggles faced by physicians in clinical decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic is how to deal with already available or lacking scientific evidence. The COVID-19 pandemic has a large impact in the routine of the many health services, including surgery, which demanded changes in assi...
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 Pandemic has resulted in a high number of hospital admissions and some of those patients need ventilatory support in intensive care units. The viral pneumonia secondary to Sars-cov-2 infection may lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and longer mechanical ventilation n...
Aerosoles/efectos adversos,
Betacoronavirus,
Brasil,
COVID-19,
Infecciones por Coronavirus/prevención & control,
Infecciones por Coronavirus/cirugía,
Procedimientos Quirúrgicos Electivos/normas,
Quirófanos/normas,
Tempo Operativo,
Pandemias/prevención & control,
Equipo de Protección Personal/normas,
Neumonía Viral/prevención & control,
Neumonía Viral/cirugía,
SARS-CoV-2,
Centros de Atención Terciaria/normas,
Traqueostomía/normas
ABSTRACT SARS-CoV-2 is a novel virus which has proven to be highly contagious. Specific viral dynamics and immune response to the virus are yet to be fully defined and determining the sensitivity and specificity of the available testing methods is still a work in progress. This study examines the publish...
Formación de Anticuerpos,
Betacoronavirus,
COVID-19,
Prueba de COVID-19,
Técnicas de Laboratorio Clínico,
Infecciones por Coronavirus/diagnóstico,
Infecciones por Coronavirus/inmunología,
Procedimientos Quirúrgicos Electivos,
Pandemias,
Neumonía Viral/diagnóstico,
Neumonía Viral/inmunología,
Valor Predictivo de las Pruebas,
SARS-CoV-2,
Esparcimiento de Virus
ABSTRACT On January 30th, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 2 (SARSCoV-2) outbreak an international public health emergency, and one day later, the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Gomera Island, Spain. In the following weeks, the number of cases in se...
ABSTRACT In Brazil, indigenous peoples present a complex reality characterized by a marked social vulnerability that is manifested in health and nutritional indicators. In this scenario, poor sanitary conditions prevail, with a high burden of chronic noncommunicable diseases; infectious/parasitic disease...
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global public health emergency with lethality ranging from 1% to 5%. This study aimed to identify active high-risk transmission clusters of COVID-19 in Sergipe. METHODS: We performed a prospective space-time analysis using confir...
Abstract INTRODUCTION: The coronavirus disease (COVD-19) outbreak has overburdened the surveillance of severe acute respiratory infections (SARIs), including the laboratory network. This study was aimed at correcting the absence of laboratory results of reported SARI deaths. METHODS: The imputation met...
Abstract Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a pandemic caused by a new coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2. This disease was first identified in December 2019 and rapidly developed into a challenge to the public health systems around the world. In the absence of a vaccine and specific therapies, disease contro...
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Monitoring coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related infections and deaths in Brazil is controversial, with increasing pressure to ease social distance measures. However, no evidence of a sustained, widespread fall in cases exists. METHODS We used segmented (joinpoint) regression a...
