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Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations: The Experience of an Italian Tertiary Center

SARS-CoV-2 pandemic restrictions have deeply altered the common respiratory illnesses burden. The aim of this paper was to clarify how these measures may have influenced bronchiolitis epidemiology, exploring possible explanations. We studied 342 infants hospitalized for bronchiolitis at our center f...

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Autores principales: Stera, Giacomo, Pierantoni, Luca, Masetti, Riccardo, Leardini, Davide, Biagi, Carlotta, Buonsenso, Danilo, Pession, Andrea, Lanari, Marcello
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8304517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34203542
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8070556
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author Stera, Giacomo
Pierantoni, Luca
Masetti, Riccardo
Leardini, Davide
Biagi, Carlotta
Buonsenso, Danilo
Pession, Andrea
Lanari, Marcello
author_facet Stera, Giacomo
Pierantoni, Luca
Masetti, Riccardo
Leardini, Davide
Biagi, Carlotta
Buonsenso, Danilo
Pession, Andrea
Lanari, Marcello
author_sort Stera, Giacomo
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description SARS-CoV-2 pandemic restrictions have deeply altered the common respiratory illnesses burden. The aim of this paper was to clarify how these measures may have influenced bronchiolitis epidemiology, exploring possible explanations. We studied 342 infants hospitalized for bronchiolitis at our center from four different epidemic seasons (October–April 2017–2018, 2018–2019, 2019–2020 and 2020–2021). March–April hospitalization rate, RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) infection, pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission and oxygen therapy administration data were compared among different seasons to outline any changes during the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. In March–April, 30 (23.1%), 28 (24.6%) and 5 (5.1%) infants were hospitalized for bronchiolitis, respectively, in 2017–2018, 2018–2019 and 2019–2020, with a lower rate in March–April 2020 (p < 0.001). No hospitalizations for bronchiolitis occurred during the epidemic season of 2020–2021. No significant differences in RSV infections, oxygen therapy administration and PICU admissions across seasons were outlined. In conclusion, we report a severe decrease in hospitalizations for bronchiolitis at our center throughout the entire SARS-CoV-2 outbreak rather than only during the lockdown periods. This seems to suggest a pivotal role for the systematic implementation of cost-effective non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as compulsory face masks and hand hygiene, which were deployed for the entire pandemic, in reducing the circulation of infectious agents.
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spelling pubmed-83045172021-07-25 Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations: The Experience of an Italian Tertiary Center Stera, Giacomo Pierantoni, Luca Masetti, Riccardo Leardini, Davide Biagi, Carlotta Buonsenso, Danilo Pession, Andrea Lanari, Marcello Children (Basel) Brief Report SARS-CoV-2 pandemic restrictions have deeply altered the common respiratory illnesses burden. The aim of this paper was to clarify how these measures may have influenced bronchiolitis epidemiology, exploring possible explanations. We studied 342 infants hospitalized for bronchiolitis at our center from four different epidemic seasons (October–April 2017–2018, 2018–2019, 2019–2020 and 2020–2021). March–April hospitalization rate, RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) infection, pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission and oxygen therapy administration data were compared among different seasons to outline any changes during the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. In March–April, 30 (23.1%), 28 (24.6%) and 5 (5.1%) infants were hospitalized for bronchiolitis, respectively, in 2017–2018, 2018–2019 and 2019–2020, with a lower rate in March–April 2020 (p < 0.001). No hospitalizations for bronchiolitis occurred during the epidemic season of 2020–2021. No significant differences in RSV infections, oxygen therapy administration and PICU admissions across seasons were outlined. In conclusion, we report a severe decrease in hospitalizations for bronchiolitis at our center throughout the entire SARS-CoV-2 outbreak rather than only during the lockdown periods. This seems to suggest a pivotal role for the systematic implementation of cost-effective non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as compulsory face masks and hand hygiene, which were deployed for the entire pandemic, in reducing the circulation of infectious agents. MDPI 2021-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8304517/ /pubmed/34203542 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8070556 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Stera, Giacomo
Pierantoni, Luca
Masetti, Riccardo
Leardini, Davide
Biagi, Carlotta
Buonsenso, Danilo
Pession, Andrea
Lanari, Marcello
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations: The Experience of an Italian Tertiary Center
title Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations: The Experience of an Italian Tertiary Center
title_full Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations: The Experience of an Italian Tertiary Center
title_fullStr Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations: The Experience of an Italian Tertiary Center
title_full_unstemmed Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations: The Experience of an Italian Tertiary Center
title_short Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations: The Experience of an Italian Tertiary Center
title_sort impact of sars-cov-2 pandemic on bronchiolitis hospitalizations: the experience of an italian tertiary center
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8304517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34203542
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8070556
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