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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rambaud, Jérôme
• Dauger, Stéphane
• Morin, Luc
• Bergounioux, Jean
• Leger, Pierre-Louis
• Carbajal, Ricardo
• Renolleau, Sylvain
• Guedj, Romain

Titel

Bronchiolitis Admissions to Intensive Care During COVID

Ist Teil von

• Pediatrics (Evanston), 2021-04, Vol.147 (4), p.1

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Academy of Pediatrics

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Acute bronchiolitis, a viral seasonal infection of the lower respiratory tract, affects nearly 20% of all children and leads to the hospitalization of 2% to 3% of all children younger than 12 months every year.1,2 Approximately 2% to 6% of hospitalized children require admission to the PICU.1 Acute bronchiolitis may account for as much as 13% of PICU admissions,3 and it is responsible for the death of ∼3 of 100 000 children under 12 months each year4 (eg, nearly 20 and 100 infants annually in England4 and the United States,5 respectively). Bronchiolitis epidemic has a predictable seasonal pattern, and in France, it starts in September, peaks in November to December, and ends in February. Although children have been relatively spared by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the impact that the overlap of the second wave of this pandemic and of the associated public measures have …