{"id":1788,"date":"2022-12-13T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T21:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2022-12-13T15:52:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T21:52:20","slug":"paediatric-inflammatory-multisystem-syndrome-pims-ts-following-sars-cov-2-infection-diagnosis-and-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/12\/13\/paediatric-inflammatory-multisystem-syndrome-pims-ts-following-sars-cov-2-infection-diagnosis-and-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome (PIMS-TS) following SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Diagnosis and Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/pch.health.wa.gov.au\/For-health-professionals\/Clinical-Practice-Guidelines\/Paediatric-Inflammatory-Multisystem-Syndrome\">Perth Children&#8217;s Hospital<\/a>) PIMS-TS [also known as Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children associated with COVID-19 (MIS-C)] is a rare but severe complication that occurred in around 1 in 3000 children 2-6 weeks following infection with previously circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2.<sup>1\u00a0<\/sup>Observed PIMS-TS incidence has been lower following Omicron infection compared with earlier waves.<sup>2, 3<\/sup>Consider PIMS-TS in the differential diagnosis in children presenting with fever, rash, conjunctival injection, abdominal pain, vomiting\/diarrhoea, or shock if they have had proven or suspected COVID-19 in the 2 &#8211; 6 weeks prior. Some features overlap with Kawasaki disease, toxic shock syndrome and sepsis.<sup>1<\/sup>Clinical condition can deteriorate rapidly; early recognition and timely initiation of appropriate therapy is important.Most cases of PIMS-TS occur in previously healthy children over the age of 5 years. Vaccinated children are significantly less likely to develop PIMS-TS.<sup>4, 5<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Perth Children&#8217;s Hospital) PIMS-TS [also known as Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children associated with COVID-19 (MIS-C)] is a rare but severe complication that occurred in around 1 in 3000 children 2-6 weeks following infection with previously circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2.1\u00a0Observed PIMS-TS incidence has been lower following Omicron infection compared with earlier waves.2, 3Consider PIMS-TS in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}