A Case Reflecting the Impact of a Deferred Transesophageal Echocardiogram on a COVID-19 Disease Patient

COVID-19 has been amongst us for over two years and has seen a strong response from the international health community regarding mobilization. There has also been the advancement of vaccine science-regulations surrounding the day-to-day decisions regarding patients who tested positive for the virus....

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Autores principales: Seffah, Kofi, Agyeman, Walter Y
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9879349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36712750
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33007
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description COVID-19 has been amongst us for over two years and has seen a strong response from the international health community regarding mobilization. There has also been the advancement of vaccine science-regulations surrounding the day-to-day decisions regarding patients who tested positive for the virus. Guidelines for treatment continue to vary. While this may benefit most patients, more objective metrics in deciding elective, urgent, and emergent procedures have been proposed. In this paper, a patient who tested positive for the virus was refused a procedure ( transesophageal echo ) based on COVID status, which may have contributed to a delay in treatment and detrimental outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-98793492023-01-27 A Case Reflecting the Impact of a Deferred Transesophageal Echocardiogram on a COVID-19 Disease Patient Seffah, Kofi Agyeman, Walter Y Cureus Internal Medicine COVID-19 has been amongst us for over two years and has seen a strong response from the international health community regarding mobilization. There has also been the advancement of vaccine science-regulations surrounding the day-to-day decisions regarding patients who tested positive for the virus. Guidelines for treatment continue to vary. While this may benefit most patients, more objective metrics in deciding elective, urgent, and emergent procedures have been proposed. In this paper, a patient who tested positive for the virus was refused a procedure ( transesophageal echo ) based on COVID status, which may have contributed to a delay in treatment and detrimental outcomes. Cureus 2022-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9879349/ /pubmed/36712750 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33007 Text en Copyright © 2022, Seffah et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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