Critical care in developing nations: what has the COVID-19 pandemic revealed?

The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the lives of millions of individuals, resulting in over 600 million cases and over 6 million fatalities worldwide. In developing nations, mortality rates for intubated patients with viral pneumonia were as high as 80%, compared to 30% in developed countries. This ar...

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Autor principal: Batista Filho, Luiz Alberto Cerqueira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10543904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37790164
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2023.45.123.40574
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spelling pubmed-105439042023-10-03 Critical care in developing nations: what has the COVID-19 pandemic revealed? Batista Filho, Luiz Alberto Cerqueira Pan Afr Med J Commentary The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the lives of millions of individuals, resulting in over 600 million cases and over 6 million fatalities worldwide. In developing nations, mortality rates for intubated patients with viral pneumonia were as high as 80%, compared to 30% in developed countries. This article intends to discuss the causes of this disparity, focusing on the main problems shared by nations with limited resources. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2023-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10543904/ /pubmed/37790164 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2023.45.123.40574 Text en Copyright: Luiz Alberto Cerqueira Batista Filho et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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