The Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic on U.S. and Canadian PICUs.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

There are limited reports of the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic focused on U.S. and Canadian PICUs. This hypothesis-generating report aims to identify the United States and Canadian trends of coronavirus disease 2019 in PICUs.

Design and setting

To better understand how the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic was affecting U.S. and Canadian PICUs, an open voluntary daily data collection process of Canadian and U.S. PICUs was initiated by Virtual Pediatric Systems, LLC (Los Angeles, CA; http://www.myvps.org) in mid-March 2020. Information was made available online to all PICUs wishing to participate. A secondary data collection was performed to follow-up on patients discharged from those PICUs reporting coronavirus disease 2019 positive patients.

SUBMITTER: Sachdeva R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7340137 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature