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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatologists and Dermatology Practice
The COVID-19 pandemic has directly or indirectly affected every human being on this planet. It's impact on the healthcare system has been devastating. The medical fraternity across the world, including India, is facing unprecedented challenges in striving to cope up with this catastrophic outbr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7367587/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32695687 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_180_20 |
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author | Bhat, Yasmeen Jabeen Aslam, Aaqib Hassan, Iffat Dogra, Sunil |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has directly or indirectly affected every human being on this planet. It's impact on the healthcare system has been devastating. The medical fraternity across the world, including India, is facing unprecedented challenges in striving to cope up with this catastrophic outbreak. Like all other specialties, dermatology practice has been profoundly affected by this pandemic. Measures have been taken by dermatologists to control the transmission of the virus, whereas providing health care to patients in the constrained environment. Preventive measures such as social distancing and hand hygienic practices along with patient education is being prioritized. Dermatological conferences and events scheduled across the globe in the first half of year 2020 have been either cancelled or postponed to discourage gatherings. Rationalization of resources and practice of teledermatology are being encouraged in current scenario. Non-urgent visits of the patients are being discouraged and elective dermatology procedures are being postponed. Many national and international dermatology societies have recently proposed recommendations and advisories on usage of biologicals and immunomodulators in present context of COVID-19 pandemic. Urticarial, erythematous, varicelliform, purpuric and livedoid rash as well as aggravation of preexisting dermatological diseases like rosacea, eczema, atopic dermatitis, and neurodermatitis rash have been reported in Covid-19 patients. Self medications and poor compliance of dermatology patients in addition to lack of proper treatment protocols and monitoring are a serious concern in the present scenario. Strategies for future course of action, including the dermatology specific guidelines need to be framed. This issue includes a special symposium on dermatology and COVID-19 having recommendations from special interest groups (SIGs) of Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists and Leprologists (IADVL) Academy on leprosy, dermatosurgery, lasers and dermoscopy. |
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spelling | pubmed-73675872020-07-20 Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatologists and Dermatology Practice Bhat, Yasmeen Jabeen Aslam, Aaqib Hassan, Iffat Dogra, Sunil Indian Dermatol Online J Editorial The COVID-19 pandemic has directly or indirectly affected every human being on this planet. It's impact on the healthcare system has been devastating. The medical fraternity across the world, including India, is facing unprecedented challenges in striving to cope up with this catastrophic outbreak. Like all other specialties, dermatology practice has been profoundly affected by this pandemic. Measures have been taken by dermatologists to control the transmission of the virus, whereas providing health care to patients in the constrained environment. Preventive measures such as social distancing and hand hygienic practices along with patient education is being prioritized. Dermatological conferences and events scheduled across the globe in the first half of year 2020 have been either cancelled or postponed to discourage gatherings. Rationalization of resources and practice of teledermatology are being encouraged in current scenario. Non-urgent visits of the patients are being discouraged and elective dermatology procedures are being postponed. Many national and international dermatology societies have recently proposed recommendations and advisories on usage of biologicals and immunomodulators in present context of COVID-19 pandemic. Urticarial, erythematous, varicelliform, purpuric and livedoid rash as well as aggravation of preexisting dermatological diseases like rosacea, eczema, atopic dermatitis, and neurodermatitis rash have been reported in Covid-19 patients. Self medications and poor compliance of dermatology patients in addition to lack of proper treatment protocols and monitoring are a serious concern in the present scenario. Strategies for future course of action, including the dermatology specific guidelines need to be framed. This issue includes a special symposium on dermatology and COVID-19 having recommendations from special interest groups (SIGs) of Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists and Leprologists (IADVL) Academy on leprosy, dermatosurgery, lasers and dermoscopy. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7367587/ /pubmed/32695687 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_180_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Dermatology Online Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Editorial Bhat, Yasmeen Jabeen Aslam, Aaqib Hassan, Iffat Dogra, Sunil Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatologists and Dermatology Practice |
title | Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatologists and Dermatology Practice |
title_full | Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatologists and Dermatology Practice |
title_fullStr | Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatologists and Dermatology Practice |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatologists and Dermatology Practice |
title_short | Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dermatologists and Dermatology Practice |
title_sort | impact of covid-19 pandemic on dermatologists and dermatology practice |
topic | Editorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7367587/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32695687 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_180_20 |
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