Abstract
ObjectivesTo describe the clinical characteristics of paediatric patients admitted to a single paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in Iran with COVID-19.MethodsA cross-sectional study of paediatric patients who were admitted to...
Highlights
The coronavirus pandemic originated in Wuhan, China[1 2]
We describe the characteristics of paediatric patients with COVID-19 admitted in paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of Namazi Hospital in Shiraz, Iran
A confirmed case of COVID-19 was defined by a positive result on a reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) assay of a specimen collected on an oropharyngeal swab, nasopharyngeal swab or
Summary
The coronavirus pandemic originated in Wuhan, China[1 2]. The current outbreak of infections with SARS-C oV-2 was termed COVID-19 by the WHO.[3] The disease rapidly spread from Wuhan to other areas of the world, so that the WHO announced that the outbreak was a pandemic in March 2020.4. The first paediatric case was a 10-year-old Chinese boy, whose family had visited Wuhan City.4A retrospective study on 366 children hospitalised for respiratory infections in January 2020 confirmed COVID-19 infection in 6 (1.6%) of them. WHO developed a preliminary case definition for this condition which was later named ‘multisystem inflammatory disorder’ in COVID-19 (MIS-C).[7]
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