Treatment of children with COVID-19: position paper of the Italian Society of Pediatric Infectious Disease

Elisabetta Venturini; Carlotta Montagnani; Silvia Garazzino; Daniele Donà; Luca Pierantoni; Andrea Lo Vecchio; Giangiacomo Nicolini; Sonia Bianchini; Andrzej Krzysztofiak; Luisa Galli; Alberto Villani; Guido Castelli-Gattinara; Italian SITIP-SIP SARS-Cov-2 pediatric infection study group

doi:10.1186/s13052-020-00900-w

Treatment of children with COVID-19: position paper of the Italian Society of Pediatric Infectious Disease

Ital J Pediatr. 2020 Sep 24;46(1):139. doi: 10.1186/s13052-020-00900-w.

Affiliations

¹ Infection Disease Unit, Meyer Children's University Hospital, Florence, Italy.
² Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Regina Margherita Children's Hospital, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
³ Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department for Woman and Child Health, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
⁴ Pediatric Emergency Unit, Policlinico di Sant'Orsola, Bologna, Italy.
⁵ Department of Translational Medical Science, Section of Pediatrics, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
⁶ UOC Pediatria, San Martino Hospital, Belluno, Italy.
⁷ Department of Pediatrics, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo Hospital, Milan, Italy.
⁸ Universitarian-Hospital Department Ospedale Bambino Gesù IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
⁹ Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
¹⁰ Universitarian-Hospital Department Ospedale Bambino Gesù IRCCS, Rome, Italy. [email protected].

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

A statement of consensus was formulated after reviewing available literature on pediatric treatment strategies for COVID-19 by the Steering and Scientific Committee of the Italian Society of Infectious Pediatric Diseases in connection with the Italian Society of Paediatrics.

Keywords: COVID-19; Children; SARS CoV-2; Treatment.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Age Factors
Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Child
Child, Preschool
Consensus
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / therapy*
Humans
Infant
Italy
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / therapy*
SARS-CoV-2
Societies, Medical