| Autor: |
Manrique-Abril FG; FM: Enf.; AB. Ph.D. Salud Pública. Profesor Titular, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Profesor asociado Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. fgmanriquea@unal.edu.co., Beltrán-Morera J; JB: Comunicadora Social-Periodista. Especialista en Administración en Salud Pública. Instituto de Salud Pública. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. jbeltranm@unal.edu.co., Ospina-Díaz JM; JO: MD. M. Sc. Epidemiologia. Profesor Titular Universidad Pedagógica Y Tecnológica De Colombia. juan.ospina@uptc.edu.co. |
| Jazyk: |
Spanish; Castilian |
| Zdroj: |
Revista de salud publica (Bogota, Colombia) [Rev Salud Publica (Bogota)] 2018 Nov 01; Vol. 20 (6), pp. 787-791. |
| DOI: |
10.15446/rsap.V20n6.82226 |
| Abstrakt: |
The influenza pandemic that ravaged the planet in 1918-1919 is, undoubtedly, the most virulent and lethal infectious disease that the human species has ever overcome. This essay was to evaluate the medical interpretation of this phenomenon and the response given by doctors in terms of diagnostic and therapeutic technology based on the data published in the medical literature of two of the most important journals of the time, BMJ (The British Medical Journal) and JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association). It was found that the arsenal of knowledge, diagnosis and therapeutics of the time offered very few tools to address clinical management and curb contagion and mortality. However, the difficulties that clinicians and health authorities had to overcome were a solid incentive to make significant progress in the understanding and management of infectious diseases, particularly of viral etiology, in a short period of time. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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