![]() Most of the more prolonged symptoms in the other patients were similarly unlikely to be due to COVID-19 and some of these patients were under investigation for a specific cause. Four of these 5 patients had an acute respiratory presentation and the fifth had a history of asthma making it difficult to attribute any persistence of symptoms confidently to COVID-19. These symptoms had resolved in 1–3 months in 5/11 (45%) (Table 1). ![]() A small proportion, namely 11/71 (15%) had symptoms beyond 4 weeks of discharge (Tables 1 and 2). Most (60/71, 85%) patients had made a complete recovery. There were 71 patients available for follow up, 42/71 (59%) were male and the mean age 6.7 years (range 11 days–17 years). We were unable to contact 17/88 (19%) at the time of the survey. Acute disease severity was classified according to modified World Health Organisation classifications 2. 54 (61%) were male, 43 (49%) had an underlying co-morbidity. Parents/guardian’s of children gave full informed consent to perform the assessment at the time of being assessed.Ī total of 88 CYP were admitted with a range of conditions. Methods and protocols were approved by King’s College audit committee as a clinical audit. Ethics approvalĪpproved from the ethics committee of King’s College as a service evaluation project. A significance of p < 0.05 was deemed significant. We entered the results of the assessments into an excel database, and analysed the difference between those with and without longer lasting symptoms and the severity of their initial presentation using the Chi squared test or fishers exact test. This was a prospective observational cohort study. ![]() Methods were performed in accordance to the guidelines and regulations of the trust. The telephone review was made by Paediatric Respiratory consultants in March 2021 and therefore from 3–12 months after the admission. The assessment was performed using a standardised clinical proforma (Appendix 1) over the telephone. The CYP were aged 18 years or younger admitted between 1 March 2020 and 19 January 2021 to King’s College Hospital with positive SARS-CoV-2 RNA positivity. We assessed symptoms associated with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome, defined as symptoms persisting for 4 weeks or longer 1. None of the children included had PIMS-TS. The subjects were CYP up to 18 years of age with SARS-CoV-2 RNA positivity who were admitted between 1 March 2020 and 19 January 2021 to King’s College Hospital 3, 4.
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