Periodicidad semestral: flujo continuo.
ISSN - Electrónico: 2661-6947 / DOI: 10.36015 • LILACS BIREME (19784); LATINDEX (20666)
Emerging and reemerging infectious diseases are constant challenges to public health worldwide. Recent cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, China have led to the discovery of a new type of Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which are enveloped ribonucleic acid (RNA) viruses, commonly found in humans, other mammals, and birds, capable of cause respiratory, enteric, liver and neurological diseases1. The health threat of SARS-associated coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease that produces it called COVID-19 has already been established with its considerably higher infection and mortality rates compared to other respiratory viruses acquired in the community2. In this sense, it is necessary to give a response from the Hematology Technical Unit in relation to this pandemic in order to contribute to the comprehensive management of these patients, homogenize clinical criteria, better deal with uncertainty in the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. SARS CoV-2 and its disease COVID-19, in the majority of patients have a presentation with mild symptoms. However, in 5% of diagnosed cases they will require an Intensive Care Unit (ICU)3, since they present Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), septic shock, Multiple Organ Failure and hemorrhagic coagulopathy, as well as thrombotic, including Coagulation Disseminated Intravascular (DIC), achieved in the ICU wards a mortality rate for COVID-19 between 22% and 62% in some series4. Additionally, it has been observed that the group of patients with poor evolution present a
hyperinflammatory state, resembling the clinical picture of secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, which in this case would be triggered by SARS CoV-25. The group of Hematologists from the hospitals of the city of Quito: Specialities Carlos Andrade Marín HECAM-IESS, Metropolitano; and, hospitals in the city of Guayaquil: Teodoro Maldonado Carbo-IESS, Luis Vernaza Hospital and Gilbert Clinic, based on the available scientific evidence and professional expertise, prepared this protocol with the recommendations according to the different hematological scenarios and complications.
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