Viral infections in children's wards—how well do we manage them?

Children are frequently admitted to hospital wards with viral infections. Many are not life-threatening to the index case, but the spread to vulnerable patients who are already at higher risk should be avoided. To do so requires active awareness and availability of rapid diagnosis (i.e. the same day...

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Autor principal: Madeley, C.R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd. 1995
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7173074/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7560947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0195-6701(95)90016-0
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description Children are frequently admitted to hospital wards with viral infections. Many are not life-threatening to the index case, but the spread to vulnerable patients who are already at higher risk should be avoided. To do so requires active awareness and availability of rapid diagnosis (i.e. the same day). Cohorting and handwashing have been found to be the best measures to prevent spread of respiratory syncytial virus (responsible for considerable morbidity every winter) in hospital wards.
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spelling pubmed-71730742020-04-22 Viral infections in children's wards—how well do we manage them? Madeley, C.R. J Hosp Infect Article Children are frequently admitted to hospital wards with viral infections. Many are not life-threatening to the index case, but the spread to vulnerable patients who are already at higher risk should be avoided. To do so requires active awareness and availability of rapid diagnosis (i.e. the same day). Cohorting and handwashing have been found to be the best measures to prevent spread of respiratory syncytial virus (responsible for considerable morbidity every winter) in hospital wards. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 1995-06 2004-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7173074/ /pubmed/7560947 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0195-6701(95)90016-0 Text en Copyright © 1995 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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