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Reading courtesy of Poetry in America. Used with permission. The poem goes on to matter-of-factly index losses: keys, time, names, and much more. With loss all around in this first year of COVID-19—our patients, our colleagues, our loved ones, our bearings—“One Art” seems apt for our time.
- Rafael Campo, Elisa New
- 2021
Special Populations. Clinical Management of Children. These sections contain recommendations for managing children with COVID-19 or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). Clinical Management of Children Summary. Overview of guidance on managing hospitalized and nonhospitalized children with COVID-19 or MIS-C.
Helping you mourn. The holes in the wall let me see, That very tree. It reminds me. It reminds me of those days, Where nothing went my way, Where I skipped through the grass. And wasn’t looking through stained glass. It reminds me of the times I didn’t spend alone,
- Table 3a. Therapeutic Management of Nonhospitalized Children With COVID-19
- Table 3c. Therapeutic Management of Hospitalized Children With COVID-19
- Table 3d. Therapeutic Management of Hospitalized Pediatric Patients With MIS-C
- References
Symptomatic, Regardless of Risk Factors
OPEN
Aged 12–17 Years
••Provide supportive care (AIII).
Aged <12 Years
••Provide supportive care (AIII).
Hospitalized for COVID-19
OPEN
For children aged ≥12 years admitted for COVID-19, use prophylactic anticoagulation unless contraindicated (BIII).a
•Weighing the risk factors for thrombosis and bleeding, some Panel members would use prophylactic anticoagulation for children aged <12 years who are hospitalized for COVID-19.
Does Not Require Supplemental Oxygen
OPEN
MIS-C
OPEN
Initial treatment for MIS-C includes both immunomodulatory and antithrombotic therapy.
Initial Immunomodulatory Therapy
•IVIG 2 g/kg IBW (up to a maximum total dose of 100 g) IV plus low to moderate dose methylprednisolone (1–2 mg/kg/day) IVa or another glucocorticoid at an equivalent dosea (AIIb).
•Glucocorticoid monotherapy, only if IVIG is unavailable or contraindicated (BIIa).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. COVID-19 weekly cases and deaths per 100,000 population by age, race/ethnicity, and sex. 2023. Available at: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographicsovertime. Accessed June 23, 2023.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Provisional COVID-19 deaths: focus on ages 0–18 years. 2023. Available at: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-on-Ages-0-18-Yea/nr4s-juj3. Accessed June 23, 2023.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Demographic trends of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the US reported to CDC. 2023. Available at: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics. Accessed June 23, 2023.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. COVID-NET laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 hospitalizations. 2023. Available at: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#covidnet-hospitalization-network. Accessed June 23, 2023.
Feb 29, 2024 · Therapeutic Management of Hospitalized Children With COVID-19. Last Updated: February 29, 2024. This section outlines the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel’s (the Panel) recommendations for the therapeutic management of children (i.e., pediatric patients aged <18 years) who are hospitalized for COVID-19.
Nurse’s poem honors those who died from COVID-19. |. 04/11/2021. Tiffany Smith and her resource pool colleagues floated from Riley to the Methodist COVID ICU during the worst of the pandemic. She poured her heart out, first on paper, then in a video recording.
“The first line of this poem arrived during the first few months of the Covid pandemic. I was sheltering-in-place: minimizing time spent in shops, finishing the semester on Zoom, and venturing outside now and then. I was, basically, marooned on my couch. After I wrote the first line, I combed my notebooks for language that orbits loneliness.
