Respiratory syndromes in childhood: epidemiology and care

Abstract

Introduction: Respiratory diseases are the first reason for pediatric consultation in outpatient clinics and emergency services, data suggest that 30 to 50% of children who seek emergency or basic medical care present respiratory symptoms. Objective: To evaluate respiratory syndromes in childhood. Methodology: Integrative literature review research, guided by the following steps: construction of the research question; delimitation of inclusion and exclusion criteria; choice of databases; search and selection of studies; analysis and presentation of results. Results and Discussion: 3,000 studies were identified, after applying the language inclusion criteria, remaining 60 studies, and then reading the titles, in which 2,960 articles were excluded, as they were not related to the objective of this article. The summaries of the 60 articles selected based on the analysis of the titles were read. Therefore, 10 articles comprised the research. Conclusion: Therefore, investment in research is necessary to develop knowledge in an interdisciplinary manner, generating improvements in the quality of diagnosis and care and especially on specific syndromes, of which a large part of them is currently focused on Covid due to the pandemic.