In the first quarter of 2023, Santa Rosa de Chajarí Hospital registered 23 cases of bronchiolitis. At the same time, in the same period in 2022, 4 cases were hospitalized due to illness.
Bronchiolitis affects children under 2 years of age and “presents with first or second wheezing, associated with clinical evidence of viral infection, with symptoms of peripheral bronchial obstruction, shortness of breath, and prolonged inspiratory or expiratory times,” the report said. “.
“It was observed that the number of hospitalizations due to bronchiolitis in the January-June period (…) was much higher than in 2022,” they noted.
Another piece of information in the full semi-annual bulletin issued by the Epidemiological Node states that in terms of pneumonia, there will be 41 hospitalized patients in the first six months of 2022. This year, figures show 25 people were hospitalized with the same illness.
The report states that pneumonia refers to acute fever (38° and above) with cough, respiratory distress, shortness of breath, and radiographic findings of lobar or segmental infiltrates and/or pleural effusions.
These are some of the aspects considered in the local hospital epidemiology node report with references to nursing graduate Mariana Berta, veterinarian Nestor Martampo and nurse Maria Gloria Benet s.