Avoid as much as possible the closure of educational services and schools by carefully assessing the need for it with the competent authorities, in order to protect the psychophysical health and promote the development of children and adolescents.
In pediatric age, SARS-CoV-2 infection is less severe than in adults. Children become infected predominantly within families, while transmission within educational settings is less frequent. During a COVID-19 pandemic, stressful factors such as lack of social contacts...
Do not postpone routine immunization or modify usual pediatric preventive and treatment measures in both the territory and hospital during the circulation of SARS-CoV-2.
In children in the first two years of life, delays of 3-6 months in scheduled vaccination sessions were observed during the COVID-19 pandemic, while in adolescents vaccination coverage for booster doses dropped by more than 10%. In addition, late diagnoses of chronic...
Discourage pediatric patients attending the Emergency Room with mild symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 or if they are contacts of SARS-CoV-2 positive patients in the absence of symptoms and do not delay access to Health Services if children and adolescents present with any clinical condition indicative of possible serious illness (whether or not related to presumed COVID-19 infection).
Children appear to be less affected by COVID-19 than adults, with a milder clinical presentation and a significantly lower mortality rate. However, serious complications, such as temporarily COVID-19-related multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), which can be...Physical restraint to prevent falls
The physical restraint used for the prevention of falls in the elderly (e.g. bed belt, restraint belt, side rails…), is increasingly emerging as inappropriate: in addition to being disheartening, it can be dangerous and ineffective. The conditions for which it...The campaign DOING MORE DOES NOT MEAN DOING BETTER – CHOOSING WISELY ITALY is promoted by Italy’s Slow Medicine
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