Clinical and radiological profile of children hospitalized with complicated pneumonias

Abstract

Most children have 4 to 6 acute respiratory infections (IRA) per year. Of these, only 2-3% progress to pneumonia. Community-acquired pneumonia (PAC) is one of the respiratory tract infections. PAC in children remains a global public health problem due to its high morbidity and mortality, being the disease that most kills children between 0 and 5 years of age in the world. Complicated PAC is defined as fever permanence or clinical instability after 48-72 h of PAC admission. The objective of this work is to describe complicated PACs, hospitalized at a pediatric hospital, between April 2006 and April 2018. This is a retrospective, observational and descriptive study with children and adolescents aged 0 to 13 years, hospitalized with complicated PAC in a pediatric hospital, from April 2006 to April 2018. Patients data were collected and a data collection form was completed. The following variables will be studied: age, gender, type of pulmonary/extrapulmonary complication, vaccination status (pneumococcal vaccine), treatment time, daycare regulars or not. Descriptive analysis of categorical variables in frequency form and numerical variables in the form of percentage, mean and median were performed. It was concluded with this study that the clinical and radiological profile of pneumonia in one pediatric hospital is similar to that found in the world literature today.