Executive summary. Consensus statement of the National AIDS Plan Secretariat, Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine and AIDS Study Group of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology on Emergency and HIV Infection

Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2013 Aug-Sep;31(7):457-60. doi: 10.1016/j.eimc.2012.11.019. Epub 2013 Apr 17.

Abstract

Emergency Services (ES) are the cornerstone of our health system and therefore it cannot remain indifferent to the HIV advances that have drastically changed the landscape of the disease, so, emergency specialist updating is not only necessary, it is also essential. The purpose of this paper is to support non-HIV specialist professionals in treating patients with urgent diseases resulting from HIV infection or related to it.

Keywords: Antiretroviral treatment; Diagnóstico precoz; Early diagnosis; Emergency; Human immunodeficiency virus; Tratamiento antirretroviral; Urgencias; Virus de la inmunodeficiencia humana.

Publication types

  • Consensus Development Conference
  • Practice Guideline
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / complications
  • Emergency Treatment*
  • HIV Infections / complications*
  • Humans