Open AccessCase study of covid-19 in patients admitted to a campaign hospital in the city of recife: a retrospective study
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of developmental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2230-9926
DOI - 10.37118/ijdr.22186.06.2021
Subject(s) - medicine , retrospective cohort study , pandemic , covid-19 , notifiable disease , disease , health care , medical emergency , pediatrics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , emergency medicine , economics , economic growth
Since it was detected in November 2019, the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), has been expanding across different continents, having been characterized as the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020.This is a study descriptive and retrospective of patients diagnosed with COVID-19, hospitalized in a field hospital in the city of Recife in the period from April 2020 to September 2020. The Campaign Hospitals dedicated to the care of clinical patients, victims of infectious diseases, have the following basic characteristics: rapid construction, a large-scale temporary structure. From April 2020 to September 2020, 1,592 cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome were confirmed in the hospital evaluated. There were 1,502 notifications and among these 90 were not notified because they had already been notified in emergency services with positive results. Regarding the reported cases, 54% of the individuals were male and the most affected were the age group between sixty and sixty-nine years old 363(22.8%).SARS is a notifiable disease; therefore, all suspected cases must be reported and investigated by the health services using the standard Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN).This study may provide subsidies to understand the aspects involved in the occurrence of the disease, so that the prevention and coping with COVID-19 are consistent with the assistance provided by health surveillance.