Critically Ill Pediatric Patient and SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Jozef Klučka; Eva Klabusayová; Milan Kratochvíl; Tereza Musilová; Václav Vafek; Tamara Skříšovská; Martina Kosinová; Pavla Havránková; Petr Štourač

doi:10.3390/children9040538

Critically Ill Pediatric Patient and SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Children (Basel). 2022 Apr 11;9(4):538. doi: 10.3390/children9040538.

Authors

Jozef Klučka^{1

2}, Eva Klabusayová^{1

2}, Milan Kratochvíl^{1

2}, Tereza Musilová^{1

2}, Václav Vafek^{1

2}, Tamara Skříšovská^{1

2}, Martina Kosinová^{1

2}, Pavla Havránková^{1

3}, Petr Štourač^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Brno and Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
² Department of Simulation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
³ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, The Donaustadt Clinic, Lango Bardenstraße 122, 1220 Vienna, Austria.

Abstract

In December 2019 SARS-CoV-2 initiated a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, which is still ongoing in 2022. Although adult elderly patients with chronic preexisting diseases had been identified as the most vulnerable group, COVID-19 has also had a significant impact on pediatric intensive care. Early in 2020, a new disease presentation, multisystemic inflammatory syndrome, was described in children. Despite the vaccination that is available for all age categories, due to its selection process, new viral mutations and highly variable vaccination rate, COVID-19 remains a significant clinical challenge in adult and pediatric intensive care in 2022.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; child; intensive care; management; pediatric.

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