{"id":19695,"date":"2024-11-28T00:04:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T00:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/?page_id=19695"},"modified":"2025-06-14T01:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T01:03:25","slug":"journal-2024-vol-25-no-2-original-articles-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/journal-2024-vol-25-no-2-original-articles-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal 2024 Vol.25 No.2 Original Articles 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Journal 2024 Vol.25 No.2<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<b>Clinical and Laboratory Profile, Management and Outcome of Pediatric\u00a0<\/b><b>Patients with COVID-19 Infection Admitted at the Zamboanga City Medical\u00a0<\/b><b>Center <\/b><br \/>\n<em>Rosemarie S. Arciaga, M.D., Suzeth L. Herrera, M.D., Jocell B. Salinasal, Jessie James C. Cabelin, M.D., Marimel R. Pagcatipunan, M.D.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Abstract<\/strong><br \/>\n<b>Objective: <\/b>To determine the clinical profile, management and outcome of pediatric patients with COVID-19 infection admitted at the Zamboanga City Medical Center (ZCMC) from March 2020 to December 2022.<br \/>\n<b>Methodology: <\/b>This was a retrospective cohort study which enrolled patients 19 years old and below with SARS-CoV-2 infection admitted at the ZCMC. Charts were retrieved and uploaded on a database. Demographic and clinical information were gathered including history of exposure to COVID-19, history of COVID-19 vaccination, comorbidities, clinical manifestations, laboratory examination, medications and clinical outcome. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics.<br \/>\n<b>Results: <\/b>There were 145 evaluable patients. The mean age was 8.4 years with 40% aged less than 5 years old. Majority were males (58.62%). Half (50.34%) had no known exposure to COVID-19. None received COVID-19 vaccine. Ninety-seven (66.90%) patients were underweight. Sixty-nine (47.59%) patients were asymptomatic, 30 (20.69%) had mild infection while 24 (16.55%) had severe to critical illness. There were 5 (3.45%) cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS\u0002C). The most common symptoms were fever, vomiting\/nausea, cough and shortness of breath. The most common chest radiograph findings were bilateral lung opacities. Majority of the patients received antibiotics (68.97%). Other medications given included corticosteroids (14.48%), intravenous immunoglobulin (3.45%), remdesivir (4.83%) and tocilizumab (5.52%).The mortality rate was 11.72%.<br \/>\n<b>Conclusion: <\/b>Pediatric COVID-19 in Southwestern Mindanao affects all age groups. Majority of hospitalized patients were\u00a0asymptomatic or had mild infection. Fever was the most common manifestation. Antibiotic use was high. Mortality rate was\u00a011.72%.<br \/>\n<b>Keywords: <\/b><i>COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, children, pediatric patients, clinical profile<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.56964\/pidspj20242502005\"><strong>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.56964\/pidspj20242502005<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/6-Pediatric-COVID.pdf\" target=\"_\" rel=\"noopener\">View Full Article in PDF format<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal 2024 Vol.25 No.2 Clinical and Laboratory Profile, Management and Outcome of Pediatric\u00a0Patients with COVID-19 Infection Admitted at the Zamboanga City Medical\u00a0Center Rosemarie S. Arciaga, M.D., Suzeth L. Herrera, M.D., Jocell B. Salinasal, Jessie James C. Cabelin, M.D., Marimel R. Pagcatipunan, M.D. Abstract Objective: To determine the clinical profile, management and outcome of pediatric patients  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19695","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19695"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19917,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19695\/revisions\/19917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}