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Reduction in paediatric intensive care admissions during COVID-19 lockdown in Maryland, USA
As a public health measure during the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world instituted a variety of interventions to ‘flatten the curve’. The government of Maryland instituted similar measures. We observed a striking decline in paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admissions during that p...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7640529/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33173836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000876 |
Sumario: | As a public health measure during the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world instituted a variety of interventions to ‘flatten the curve’. The government of Maryland instituted similar measures. We observed a striking decline in paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admissions during that period, mostly due to a decease in respiratory infections. We believe this decline is multifactorial: less person-to-person contact, better air quality and perhaps ‘fear’ of going to a hospital during the pandemic. We report an analysis of our PICU admissions during the lockdown period and compared them with the same time period during the four previous years. |
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