Patient safety recommendations and management in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia suspicion: a retrospective study.
Clin Ter
; 172(3): 225-230, 2021 May 05.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1218707
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Since December 2019, new pneumonia of unknown aetiology broke out in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. Subsequently, a virus, later named as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was identified as the causative agent of the disease. Currently, the epidemic has spread all over the world. The most common manifestations of COVID-19 are fever, fatigue and dry cough. At the moment, the nuclide acid test is the gold standard method for the diagnosis of this infection.METHODS:
In the present paper, we report our experience with all patients who came to the Emergency Department from March 1 to April 1, 2020, with suggestive symptoms of COVID-19 infection. Patients they all underwent a first oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal swab in the emergency department and, if negative, a second one after at least 24 hours.RESULTS:
Our study shows how the results obtained at time zero are usually identical to the ones obtained after 24 hours. We thus suggest, in patients with high suspicion of COVID19 and a negative result at the first swab, to repeat the test after at least 48 hours, during which patients with symptoms of COVID-19 pneumonia disease should be kept in isolation to avoid the risk of contagion.CONCLUSIONS:
these measures and in particular the early identifica-tion of cases with consequent isolation will allow the containment of the spread of the virus, representing one of the fundamental measures to guarantee and strengthen the control of the infection to reduce hospital admissions, the overload of national health service and health costs.Keywords
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Practice Guidelines as Topic
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Disease Management
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COVID-19
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Hospitalization
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
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Young adult
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Clin Ter
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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