Management of the first severe case of COVID-19 in the small islands of Maldives

The first cases of COVID19 in the Maldives was reported on 7th March 2020 with a total of 13 cases by 27th March from number of resort islands and were confined to the islands in which the cases were detected. This report describes the clinical course and management of the first severe case that req...

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Autores principales: Hussain, Moosa, Ali, Mohamed, Ismail, Mohamed, Soliman, Mohame, Muhsin, Milza, Nazeer, Aminath, Solih, Maeesha, Arifa, Aminath, Latheef, Ali, Ziyan, Ahmed, Shaheed, Ahmed, Luthfee, Nazla, Rafeeq, Nazla, Shifaly, Aishath, Moosa, Sheena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7276129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32550127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101118
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author Hussain, Moosa
Ali, Mohamed
Ismail, Mohamed
Soliman, Mohame
Muhsin, Milza
Nazeer, Aminath
Solih, Maeesha
Arifa, Aminath
Latheef, Ali
Ziyan, Ahmed
Shaheed, Ahmed
Luthfee, Nazla
Rafeeq, Nazla
Shifaly, Aishath
Moosa, Sheena
author_facet Hussain, Moosa
Ali, Mohamed
Ismail, Mohamed
Soliman, Mohame
Muhsin, Milza
Nazeer, Aminath
Solih, Maeesha
Arifa, Aminath
Latheef, Ali
Ziyan, Ahmed
Shaheed, Ahmed
Luthfee, Nazla
Rafeeq, Nazla
Shifaly, Aishath
Moosa, Sheena
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description The first cases of COVID19 in the Maldives was reported on 7th March 2020 with a total of 13 cases by 27th March from number of resort islands and were confined to the islands in which the cases were detected. This report describes the clinical course and management of the first severe case that required intensive care. Treatment strategy adopted was supportive and patient improved wit timely symptomatic management. This case highlights the importance of epidemiological surveillance and active case finding to detect and diagnose the case at an early stage for appropriate clinical management for positive outcomes in high risk groups.
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spelling pubmed-72761292020-06-08 Management of the first severe case of COVID-19 in the small islands of Maldives Hussain, Moosa Ali, Mohamed Ismail, Mohamed Soliman, Mohame Muhsin, Milza Nazeer, Aminath Solih, Maeesha Arifa, Aminath Latheef, Ali Ziyan, Ahmed Shaheed, Ahmed Luthfee, Nazla Rafeeq, Nazla Shifaly, Aishath Moosa, Sheena Respir Med Case Rep Case Report The first cases of COVID19 in the Maldives was reported on 7th March 2020 with a total of 13 cases by 27th March from number of resort islands and were confined to the islands in which the cases were detected. This report describes the clinical course and management of the first severe case that required intensive care. Treatment strategy adopted was supportive and patient improved wit timely symptomatic management. This case highlights the importance of epidemiological surveillance and active case finding to detect and diagnose the case at an early stage for appropriate clinical management for positive outcomes in high risk groups. Elsevier 2020-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7276129/ /pubmed/32550127 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101118 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Hussain, Moosa
Ali, Mohamed
Ismail, Mohamed
Soliman, Mohame
Muhsin, Milza
Nazeer, Aminath
Solih, Maeesha
Arifa, Aminath
Latheef, Ali
Ziyan, Ahmed
Shaheed, Ahmed
Luthfee, Nazla
Rafeeq, Nazla
Shifaly, Aishath
Moosa, Sheena
Management of the first severe case of COVID-19 in the small islands of Maldives
title Management of the first severe case of COVID-19 in the small islands of Maldives
title_full Management of the first severe case of COVID-19 in the small islands of Maldives
title_fullStr Management of the first severe case of COVID-19 in the small islands of Maldives
title_full_unstemmed Management of the first severe case of COVID-19 in the small islands of Maldives
title_short Management of the first severe case of COVID-19 in the small islands of Maldives
title_sort management of the first severe case of covid-19 in the small islands of maldives
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7276129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32550127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101118
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