ATYPICAL INFECTIONS IN ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE IN CHILDREN

Abstract

This article aim to identify the main agents and biologicals within the pediatric population hospitalized in the Emergency Clinical Hospital for children, "Sfântul Ioan", Galati. In order to achieve this goal, we conducted a retrospective study on a group of 102 pediatric patients admitted into our clinic, between January 2018 and November 2020, being a cohort type.
Respiratory infections, especially opportunistic infections, are often seasonal. Especially increased in the cold months due to seasonal immune depression. The influenza virus H. influenzae is a pathogen with a higher prevalence in the winter months.
In order to assess the susceptibility to infections, according to season and age the cross-frequency table and the chi-square test have been performed, and there is no statistically relevant dependence relationship between these variables.
Of the 102 patients, 74.51% had a history of respiratory ailments. The most frequent conditions encountered in the antecedents, within this group, were an acute respiratory failure (29.4%) and pneumonia (33.3%).
For our study group, in the case of the type of therapy used, a quasi-symmetrical distribution could be observed, where 49.02% of the subjects benefited from double or triple antibiotic therapy, while 50.98% benefited from mono antibiotic therapy.