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OTHER NAMES
- Serious sharp respiratory syndrome.
- Asian pneumonia.
- Atypical pneumonia.
DEFINITION
The serious sharp respiratory Syndrome is a systemic illness of recent appearance and of infectious cause. The last advances go to confirm the cause towards a new type ó coronavirus variant.
SYMPTOMS
The affected patients present a picture of high, top fever to 38th, associated with shakes, headache, and widespread inconveniences. Some persons present only light respiratory symptoms. Between 3 and 7 days later, the patient develops a picture with cough without expectoration, which can progress to respiratory insufficiency, even need mechanical ventilation.
As most of the cases has happened in the Asian Southeast, it is necessary to associate the symptoms of a cold or of a common flu with a contact or trip to places with epidemic of the SRAS (China, Asian Southeast, Canada).
TREATMENT
As the forms of prevention, the causes, the treatment and other measurements to take are very changeable, given the innovation of appearance of this virus, we have been thinking about connecting better with The most prestigious International Systems of Sanitary Recommendation for his updated information.
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