Anales de pediatría : publicación oficial de la Asociación Española de Pediatría (A.E.P.)
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On 31 December 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Committee of Health and Healthcare (Hubei Province, China) reported that there were 27 cases of pneumonia of unknown origin with symptoms starting on the 8 December. There were 7 serious cases with common exposure in market with shellfish, fish, and live animals, in the city of Wuhan. On 7 January 2020, the Chinese authorities identified that the agent causing the outbreak was a new type of virus of the Coronaviridae family, temporarily called «new coronavirus», 2019-nCoV. ⋯ On 11 February 2020 the WHO assigned it the name of SARS-CoV2 and COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2 and COVID-19). The Ministry of Health summoned the Specialties Societies to prepare a clinical protocol for the management of COVID-19. The Spanish Paediatric Association appointed a Working Group of the Societies of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Paediatric Intensive Care to prepare the present recommendations with the evidence available at the time of preparing them.
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Paediatric malnutrition during hospital admission is a prevalent comorbidity, which it is estimated around 31.4% in our environment, and could influence the clinical outcomes of paediatric patients. ⋯ Nearly 50% of hospitalised children have a high risk of malnutrition at admission according to the STAMP screening tool. Risk of malnutrition at admission measured according to STAMP nutritional screening was associated with a longer length of stay and greater severity of illness. It is important to evaluate the risk of malnutrition as this could be related to illness severity.
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Observational Study
[Reducing the pain in invasive procedures during paediatric hospital admissions: Fiction, reality or virtual reality?]
Potentially painful invasive procedures are often performed for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes in hospitalised paediatric patients. Approaches, such as virtual reality (VR), should be sought in order to minimise pain and anxiety during these procedures. ⋯ The use of VR can reduce pain and anxiety during invasive procedures in hospitalized children.
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Teachers may have an essential role in basic life support (BLS) training in schoolchildren. However, few data are available about their BLS learning abilities. ⋯ After and brief and simple training program, teachers of privately managed public funded schools were able to perform the BLS sequence and to produce chest compressions with a quality similar to that obtained by staff with a duty to assist cardiac arrest victims. The ability of schoolteachers to deliver good-quality BLS is a pre-requisite to be engaged in BLS training for schoolchildren.