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Increase in severe acute respiratory infections in children during the last phase of the COVID-19 pandemic

Revista española de quimioterapia, 2024-02, Vol.37 (1), p.58-68

The Author 2023. Published by Sociedad Española de Quimioterapia. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). ;ISSN: 0214-3429 ;EISSN: 1988-9518 ;DOI: 10.37201/req/074.2023 ;PMID: 38116940

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  • Title:
    Increase in severe acute respiratory infections in children during the last phase of the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Author: Bermúdez-Barrezueta, L ; Brezmes Raposo, M ; Gutiérrez Jimeno, M ; Rodríguez Merino, E ; Pino-Velázquez, M ; Fernández García-Abril, C ; Rojo Rello, S ; Eiros Bouza, J M ; Pino-Vázquez, M A
  • Subjects: Child ; COVID-19 - epidemiology ; Female ; Hospitalization ; Humans ; Infant ; Length of Stay ; Male ; Pandemics ; Respiratory Tract Infections - epidemiology ; Retrospective Studies
  • Is Part Of: Revista española de quimioterapia, 2024-02, Vol.37 (1), p.58-68
  • Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a variation in the circulation of respiratory pathogens. Our aim was to analyze the epidemiology of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) in children during 3 years of the COVID-19 pandemic, in comparison with a previous period. An observational study was conducted in a tertiary hospital in Spain, which analyzed the frequency and characteristics of patients admitted for SARI in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) during the COVID-19 pandemic (1 March 2020 to 28 February 2023), compared to pre-pandemic period (1 March 2017 to 29 February 2020). A total of 268 patients were included (59.6% males). The median age was 9.6 months (IQR 1.7 - 37). In the pre-pandemic period, there were 126 admissions with an average of 42 admissions/year. During the pandemic, there were 142 admissions, observing a significant reduction in admissions in the first year (12 admissions/year), in contrast to 82 admissions during the third year, which represented an increase of 95% compared to the average of admissions/year in pre-pandemic. In addition, in the last year there was evidence of an increase in viral coinfections in relation to pre-pandemic period (54.9% vs 39.7%; p=0.032). There were no differences in length of hospital stay or PICU stay. During the last year, coinciding with low rates of hospitalization for COVID in Spain, we observed a notable increase in admissions to the PICU for SARI. Probably, the prolonged period of low exposure to pathogens due to the measures adopted during the pandemic might have caused a decrease in population immunity with a rise in severe respiratory infections.
  • Publisher: Spain
  • Language: Spanish;English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0214-3429
    EISSN: 1988-9518
    DOI: 10.37201/req/074.2023
    PMID: 38116940
  • Source: GFMER Free Medical Journals
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