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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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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 |
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author | Graciano, Ana Lia Bhutta, Adnan T Custer, Jason W |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-76405292020-11-05 Reduction in paediatric intensive care admissions during COVID-19 lockdown in Maryland, USA Graciano, Ana Lia Bhutta, Adnan T Custer, Jason W BMJ Paediatr Open Original Research Letter 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. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7640529/ /pubmed/33173836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000876 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Letter Graciano, Ana Lia Bhutta, Adnan T Custer, Jason W Reduction in paediatric intensive care admissions during COVID-19 lockdown in Maryland, USA |
title | Reduction in paediatric intensive care admissions during COVID-19 lockdown in Maryland, USA |
title_full | Reduction in paediatric intensive care admissions during COVID-19 lockdown in Maryland, USA |
title_fullStr | Reduction in paediatric intensive care admissions during COVID-19 lockdown in Maryland, USA |
title_full_unstemmed | Reduction in paediatric intensive care admissions during COVID-19 lockdown in Maryland, USA |
title_short | Reduction in paediatric intensive care admissions during COVID-19 lockdown in Maryland, USA |
title_sort | reduction in paediatric intensive care admissions during covid-19 lockdown in maryland, usa |
topic | Original Research Letter |
url | 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 |
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