key: cord-0814176-pkhu2zvt
authors: Capasso Palamim, Camila Vantini; Lima Marson, Fernando Augusto
title: COVID-19 – four million cases worldwide and the importance of multidisciplinary health care team during the pandemic
date: 2020-06-10
journal: J Emerg Nurs
DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2020.06.004
sha: bb8f6f2dfe65b259375a68ece9ef7755ff45494c
doc_id: 814176
cord_uid: pkhu2zvt

On 12(th) May 2020 at International Nurses day, 4 million cases of COVID-19 were recorded with a total of 292,000 deaths worldwide. Brazil, at that point, presented a total of ∼178,000 cases and 12,404 deaths caused by the disease. At that moment, Brazil appeared in the 7(th) position regarding number of cases, 6(th) in number of deaths and 2(nd) in number of active and serious cases (N=8,318) with a low number of real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) exams per million inhabitants (N=3,459). During the COVID-19 pandemic multidisciplinary health care team (nurses, biologists, nutritionists, physiotherapists, medical doctors, pharmacists and psychologists) acts intensively to promote the better outcome to all COVID-19 patients, mainly, at intensive care units during exhaustive and continuous hours. Health professionals acts in all steps involved to COVID-19 disease, since the diagnosis by RT-PCR to providing the medical support during ventilatory maneuver and by psychology support to the patients and its relatives, mainly in cases of deaths. The multidisciplinary health care team should be better recognized by its actions during and after COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition, our data demonstrated the need to optimize the diagnosis by RT-PCR including for health 66 professionals' groups; in example, many nurses are set as suspicious cases by the lack of the disease 67 diagnosis. The COVID-19 disease caused a high number of deaths worldwide, including the death of 68 health professionals. The loss of these professionals can cause more deaths by the difficult to treat all 69 COVID-19, mainly, in places where the contagion ratio is high as Brazil and there is the need of many 70 health professionals to optimize the treatment.

Multidisciplinary health care team are responsible to keep the patient breath mainly in severe 72 cases of COVID-19 including millions of people worldwide. As declared by Marson (2020) [5], "we miss 73 that global hug", however, we need to thank our health professionals to give the opportunity to dream 74 with that global hug after pandemic. 

Secretarias de Saúde do Brasil

One million cases of COVID-19: what have we learned

None.