A COVID-19 Patient Walks Into Your Clinic - What Should You Do?

Sailender20 Apr, 2020Health

Clinicians are working on how to manage patients with or suspected of having COVID-19. Here's what several physicians have told about how they're treating COVID-19 cases now. Step one- Triage Careful triage is the first step. When patients call the hospital, gauge on how sick they are based on conditions like High fever Shortness of breath Other health conditions such as diabetes, CVD, or a lung condition that increases the risk for infection Patients with mild symptoms will be asked to stay at home or to check back in 24 hours, or they�ll reach out to them. For moderate symptoms, they should be asked to come in, and they mark on the schedule that it is a respiratory patient, who will be sent to a separate area. If the patient is severe, they send them directly to the hospital to the ER. These categories are in sync with the WHO�s designations of uncomplicated illness, mild/severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, and septic shock. The CDC advis