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La prevención de la mortalidad por dengue: un espacio y un reto para la atención primaria de salud

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2006
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Martínez Torres, Eric
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Dengue is an arthropod-borne viral disease whose frequency has increased steadily in the Americas over the past 25 years. The type of dengue that carries the highest mortality is the clinical variant known as dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome (DHF/DSS). Even though no vaccine or drug against the disease is available, successful management consists of preventing serious illness through patient follow-up and monitoring danger signals so as to be able to initiate aggressive intravenous rehydration and prevent shock or treat it early and successfully. These measures are also useful in preventing other complications, such as massive hemorrhage, disseminated intravascular coagulation, multiple organ failure, and respiratory failure due to non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema. Primary health care (PHC) settings and the community are ideal spaces for this type of preventive management based on health education and active case detection. It involves training all medical and nursing staff, students, and community health workers, as well as reorganizing health care in PHC units and hospitals and redistributing available resources during a dengue epidemic.(AU)
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Rev Panam Salud Publica;20(1),jul. 2006
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Dengue; Dengue; Atenção Primária à Saúde; Américas; Dengue; Dengue; Dengue; Dengue
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http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49892006000700013
https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/7947
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Martínez Torres, Eric (2006) La prevención de la mortalidad por dengue: un espacio y un reto para la atención primaria de salud. Rev Panam Salud Publica;20(1) 60-74,jul. 2006. Retrieved from http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49892006000700013
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