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COVID-19 management: Opportunity to reassess protocols?

The COVID 19 pandemic ravaged the globe with a remarkable ferocity and has not entirely abated till now with cases flaring up at various places at different times. The expected course is for it to become endemic with recurring exacerbations. Over the past two years, we have become wiser to its patho...

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Autores principales: Sodhi, Jitender, Arora, Pankaj, Biswal, Manisha, Bhogal, Ranjitpal S., Talati, Shweta, Dhaliwal, Navneet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9638660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36352989
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2279_21
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author Sodhi, Jitender
Arora, Pankaj
Biswal, Manisha
Bhogal, Ranjitpal S.
Talati, Shweta
Dhaliwal, Navneet
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description The COVID 19 pandemic ravaged the globe with a remarkable ferocity and has not entirely abated till now with cases flaring up at various places at different times. The expected course is for it to become endemic with recurring exacerbations. Over the past two years, we have become wiser to its pathology, diagnosis, and treatment. However, it is imperative for us to regularly and consistently reassess our protocols to assimilate the current and ever-growing knowledge in this direction. Doing so will help us to use our resources judiciously, improve patient care, and enhance the overall benefit to stakeholders. In this article, we aim draw the researchers’ attention to few issues which may not be at the forefront at this point in time but important nevertheless. These include the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), universal gloving, isolation criteria, and handling of dead bodies, among others. We hope that a reassessment of the challenges involved in the said procedures will help us to be better prepared to face and tackle potential future waves and the multiple challenges that would potentially ensue post-spikes in infection incidences.
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spelling pubmed-96386602022-11-08 COVID-19 management: Opportunity to reassess protocols? Sodhi, Jitender Arora, Pankaj Biswal, Manisha Bhogal, Ranjitpal S. Talati, Shweta Dhaliwal, Navneet J Family Med Prim Care Commentary The COVID 19 pandemic ravaged the globe with a remarkable ferocity and has not entirely abated till now with cases flaring up at various places at different times. The expected course is for it to become endemic with recurring exacerbations. Over the past two years, we have become wiser to its pathology, diagnosis, and treatment. However, it is imperative for us to regularly and consistently reassess our protocols to assimilate the current and ever-growing knowledge in this direction. Doing so will help us to use our resources judiciously, improve patient care, and enhance the overall benefit to stakeholders. In this article, we aim draw the researchers’ attention to few issues which may not be at the forefront at this point in time but important nevertheless. These include the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), universal gloving, isolation criteria, and handling of dead bodies, among others. We hope that a reassessment of the challenges involved in the said procedures will help us to be better prepared to face and tackle potential future waves and the multiple challenges that would potentially ensue post-spikes in infection incidences. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-08 2022-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9638660/ /pubmed/36352989 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2279_21 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://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.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2279_21
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