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. 2020 Jun;39(6):e79-e80.
doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000002687.

SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Pediatric Department in Milan: A Logistic Rather Than a Clinical Emergency

Giovanna Chidini  1 , Cristina Villa  2 , Edoardo Calderini  2 , Paola Marchisio  3 , Daniele De Luca  4
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SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Pediatric Department in Milan: A Logistic Rather Than a Clinical Emergency

Giovanna Chidini et al. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2020 Jun.
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Flowchart representing our algorithm supporting decision making on the patients’ disposition. The identification of a “suspect patients” depends on WHO-updated definitions or on the presence of fever alone as CoVID-19 in children can occur with very mild symptoms. A suspect case has to be put in isolation room and 2 respiratory samples have to be collected for laboratory testing. If the first sample is positive, then the patients have to be kept isolated. If the first sample is negative and patients’ flow is under control, isolation has to be kept until a second sample excludes the infection. Otherwise isolation priority can be defined according to the matrix, giving higher priority to number 1, lowest priority to number 8. The same matrix can be used to deisolate “low-risk patients” in case of need of isolation for higher-risk patients.
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