Pediatric Anesthesia | 2021
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: What is in it for a pediatric anesthesiologist?
Abstract
To the Editor, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV2), has been a catastrophic pandemic, although children seem to be relatively spared. With a higher frequency of asymptomatic carriers and generally a milder disease in the pediatric population, the actual disease burden among children and adolescents remains uncertain. However, more recently, numerous reports of children presenting with multisystem inflammatory symptoms days to weeks after COVID19 infection have emerged.1,2 Affected children usually present with fever,