ABSTRACT
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a pandemic disease globally. Although COVID-19 directly invades lungs, it also involves the nervous system. Therefore, patients with nervous system involvement as the presenting symptoms in the early stage of infection may easily be misdiagnosed and their treatment delayed. They become silent contagious sources or 'virus spreaders'. In order to help neurologists to better understand the occurrence, development and prognosis, we have developed this consensus of prevention and management of COVID-19. It can also assist other healthcare providers to be familiar with and recognise COVID-19 in their evaluation of patients in the clinic and hospital environment.
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Betacoronavirus/pathogenicity , Central Nervous System Infections/therapy , Central Nervous System/virology , Clinical Laboratory Techniques/standards , Coronavirus Infections/therapy , Neurologists/standards , Pneumonia, Viral/therapy , COVID-19 , COVID-19 Testing , Central Nervous System/physiopathology , Central Nervous System Infections/diagnosis , Central Nervous System Infections/physiopathology , Central Nervous System Infections/virology , Consensus , Coronavirus Infections/diagnosis , Coronavirus Infections/physiopathology , Coronavirus Infections/virology , Early Diagnosis , Host-Pathogen Interactions , Humans , Pandemics , Pneumonia, Viral/diagnosis , Pneumonia, Viral/physiopathology , Pneumonia, Viral/virology , Predictive Value of Tests , Prognosis , SARS-CoV-2Subject(s)
COVID-19/complications , Central Nervous System Infections/diagnosis , Cranial Nerve Diseases/diagnosis , Vision Disorders/diagnosis , Adult , Ascorbic Acid/administration & dosage , Azithromycin/administration & dosage , Blepharoptosis/diagnosis , Blepharoptosis/therapy , Blepharoptosis/virology , COVID-19/epidemiology , COVID-19/therapy , Central Nervous System Infections/complications , Central Nervous System Infections/therapy , Cranial Nerve Diseases/therapy , Cranial Nerve Diseases/virology , Drug Therapy, Combination , Female , Glucocorticoids/administration & dosage , Hospitalization , Humans , Madagascar , Monitoring, Physiologic , Pandemics , SARS-CoV-2/physiology , Thiamine/administration & dosage , Vision Disorders/therapy , Vision Disorders/virologyABSTRACT
Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic. COVID-19 runs its course in two phases, the initial incubation phase and later clinical symptomatic phase. Patients in the initial incubation phase often have insidious clinical symptoms, but they are still highly contagious. At the later clinical symptomatic phase, the immune system is fully activated and the disease may enter the severe infection stage in this phase. Although many patients are known for their respiratory symptoms, they had neurological symptoms in their first 1-2 days of clinical symptomatic phase, and ischaemic stroke occurred 2 weeks after the onset of the clinical symptomatic phase. The key is to prevent a patient from progressing to this severe infection from mild infection. We are sharing our experience on prevention and management of COVID-19.