STUDY OF SARI PATIENT IN PEDIATRICS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SARS-CoV-2 INFECTION

Dr Hetal Vora; Dr Snehal Patel; Dr Panchshila Parmar; Dr Deep Fuletra; Dr Pinkal Taral; Dr Rishi Patel

Volume : IX, Issue : VII, July - 2020

STUDY OF SARI PATIENT IN PEDIATRICS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SARS-CoV-2 INFECTION

Dr Hetal Vora, Dr Snehal Patel, Dr Panchshila Parmar, Dr Deep Fuletra, Dr Pinkal Taral, Dr Rishi Patel

Abstract :

Recent outeak of SARS-COV-2 had affected so many people all over world. In earlier phase of pandemic it was believed that children are less commonly affected by covid 19. There are so many patients who presents with acute severe respiratory illness in emergency in pediatric department. So this study was done to know how the SARS-COV2 affects children, its demographic and clinical characteristic who present with acute respiratory illness. AIM: To study the incidence and clinical presentation of SARS- COV- 2 infection who were admitted with SARI in pediatric. METHOD: Retrospective Observational study from 1st April 2020 to 31st May 2020. RESULT: 8 patients were positive for covid 19 among 32 SARI patients tested by RT-PCR. Most commonly affected age group was between 1 month to 24 months (62.5%). %). All patient who were positive for covid 19 had fever as compared to covid 19 negative (p value 0.0013). In covid 19 positive patient 62.5% and 50% of patients had cough and fast eathing respectively. Total 13 patients (40.62%) had lymphopenia, out of that 5 were covid 19 positive. 8(25%) patients having radiological changes, from those 3 were covid positive. Total 26 patients were discharged and 6 patients were expired due to severe respiratory illness, among them 3 were due to covid 19 infection. CONCLUSION: also vulnerable especially patients with SARI. Fever is the most common symptom. Lymphopenia and CXR abnormality found in few patients.