• Emergencias · Feb 2021

    Practice Guideline

    Key issues in emergency department management of COVID-19: proposals for improving care for patients in Latin America.

    • Agustín Julián-Jiménez, Eduardo GarcíaDaríoDGT-LATINFURG: Grupo de Trabajo Latinoamericano para la mejora de la atención del paciente con infección en Urgencias, promovido por la Federación Latinoamericana de Medicina de Emergencias (FLAME) y la Sociedad Española de Medicina de , Juan González Del Castillo, Penna GuimarãesHelioHGT-LATINFURG: Grupo de Trabajo Latinoamericano para la mejora de la atención del paciente con infección en Urgencias, promovido por la Federación Latinoamericana de Medicina de Emergencias (FLAME) y la Sociedad Española de Medicina de, Eric Jorge García-Lamberechts, Edgardo Menéndez, Francisco Javier Candel González, César Emilio Cortés Marín, Enrique Aguilar Nilsa Romina, Pascual Piñera Salmerón, Ulises González Bascuñán, Daniel Ujakow Correa Schubert, Augusto Maldonado Gangotena, Jesús Daniel López Tapia, Gonzalo Camargo, Fabián Andrés Rosas Romero, Nelson Rodrigo Laica Sailema, Christian Doldan Otazo, Óscar E Buitrago Carazo, Paulina López Terán, and Grupo de Trabajo Latinoamericano para la mejora de la atención del paciente con Infección en Urgencias (GT-LATINFURG).
    • GT-LATINFURG: Grupo de Trabajo Latinoamericano para la mejora de la atención del paciente con infección en Urgencias, promovido por la Federación Latinoamericana de Medicina de Emergencias (FLAME) y la Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias (SEMES). INFURG-SEMES (Grupo de trabajo de Infecciones de la SEMES).
    • Emergencias. 2021 Feb 1; 33 (1): 42-58.

    AbstractThe incidence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Latin America and Spain and its impact particularly on hospital emergency departments have been great, sustained, and unpredictable. Unfortunately, this situation will continue in the medium term, regardless of the diverse concepts and definitions used to identify cases or hypotheses about the role of staff. In the context of the worldwide pandemic, a multinational group of experts from the Latin American Working Group to Improve Care for Patients With Infection (GT-LATINFURG) has drafted various opinion papers for use by emergency care systems in the member countries. The GT-LATINFURG is comprised of representatives from the 13 scientific associations affiliated with the Latin American Federation for Emergency Medicine (FLAME). Experts from the Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine (SEMES) also participated. The present consensus statement offers protocols and recommendations to facilitate the work of hospital emergency departments with regard to key issues the group identified, namely, the need for reorganization, triage, and routine test availability. Additional issues discussed include biomarkers; clinical, laboratory, radiologic, and microbiologic criteria for identifying patients with COVID-19; and risk and prognostic factors for mortality that emergency staff can use to quickly detect severe cases in our settings.

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