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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gupta, Anu
• Vishnu, Venugopalan
• Singh, Mamta
• Bhatia, Rohit
• Rajan, Roopa
• Vibha, Deepti
• Elavarasi, Arunmozhimaran
• Radhakrishnan, Divya
• Agarwal, Ayush
• Ramanujam, Bhargavi
• Das, Animesh
• Singh, Rajesh
• Pandit, Awadh
• Srivastava, Achal
• Tripathi, Manjari
• Prasad, Kameshwar
• Padma Srivastava, M

Titel

Managing Non-COVID acute neurology amidst the pandemic: Challenges and work in progress

Ist Teil von

• Annals of the Indian Academy of Neurology, 2021-01, Vol.24 (1), p.11-14

Ort / Verlag

India: Wolters Kluwer India Pvt. Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated a global health crisis. Non-COVID diseases across specialties have been significantly compromised. The greatest challenge has been to continue providing care to non-COVID cases with minimum transmission risk to health care workers, patients, and caregivers. In this specter, better described as a medical holocaust, we present our experiences of dealing with acute neurological patients who could access our facility. We attempted to work on three key areas - initial screening using a more inclusive, dynamic checklist for COVID suspicion over and above the emergency triage, a mandatory initial holding on a separate floor of our inpatient service equipped with infection control strategies similar to a COVID-designated area, and daily screening of health care workers and caregivers for symptoms and possible exposures. It was a steep learning curve, a couple of close shaves, and many more lessons that went into the development of an algorithm that seems to be working well.