Revista clínica española
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A new coronavirus outbreak emerged on the 31st of December 2019 in Wuhan, China, causing commotion among the medical community and the rest of the world. This new species of coronavirus has been termed 2019-nCoV and has caused a considerable number of cases of infection and deaths in China and, to a growing degree, beyond China, becoming a worldwide public health emergency. 2019-nCoV has high homology to other pathogenic coronaviruses, such as those originating from bat-related zoonosis (SARS-CoV), which caused approximately 646 deaths in China at the start of the decade. ⋯ This pathogen has the potential to become a pandemic. It is therefore vital to follow the personal care recommendations issued by the World Health Organisation.
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Revista clínica española · Jan 2021
Spanish and Portuguese Societies of Internal Medicine consensus guideline about best practice in end-of-life care.
To develop consensus recommendations about good clinical practice rules for caring end-of-life patients. ⋯ The panel formulated and provided the rationale for recommendations on good clinical practice rules for caring end-of-life patients.