Browsing by Author "Cruz Castillo, Juan Fernando"
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Item Hiperglucemias en pacientes covid19: Proceso fisiopatológico y manejo actual. Revisión de alcance.(Universidad Santiago de Cali, 2022) Cruz Castillo, Juan Fernando; Portocarrero Palacios , Nashly; Tascón Rivera, Sandra Patricia; Loaiza Buitrago, Diana FernandaINTRODUCTION: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the name given to the pathology caused by severe respiratory acute syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection1-5. The disease was detected in late 2019, December, in patients who had been exposed possibly to food transmission from wild animals in a market in Wuhan city, Hubei province, China, being recognized weeks later, in January 2020. OBJECTIVE: It was oriented to describe the pathophysiological process and current management of this condition. The above considering the relevance for the nursing professional, to have clear knowledge and theoretical foundations in order to provide comprehensive care to the patient. METHODOLOGY: Scope review. The databases used for this scope review were Science Direct, scielo, medigraphic, nature metabolism, SpringerLink, dspace, cinahl, databases of the Universidad Santiago de Cali and others such as Google academic. The Boolean operators AND, OR. RESULTS: During the initial search for articles on covid-19 and hyperglycemia, 2,508 articles were found, from which duplicates and incomplete articles were eliminated, finally 16 of them were selected, which met the criteria established for the review. The countries with the highest number of articles selected were Mexico with 30%, Peru with 20% and Venezuela with 20% respectively, now India, Italy, Spain, Cajamarca, Bolivia, Colombia and Indonesia each with 10%. CONCLUSIONS: Steroids, in their usual management for respiratory infections, in turn translate into side effects for patients with covid 19, since they increase glycemia levels through various mechanisms, which may be metabolic stress and infections influence hyperglycemia and persist more in patients who already have diabetes