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Review on Imaging Features for COVID-19
Published in S. Prabha, P. Karthikeyan, K. Kamalanand, N. Selvaganesan, Computational Modelling and Imaging for SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, 2021
Coronavirus has spherical/pleomorphic, covered, single-stranded, and enveloped RNA with club-modelled glycoprotein. It has subtypes. The subtypes of coronaviruses are alpha (α), beta (β), gamma (γ) and delta (δ). Each subtype has numerous serotypes. Humans are affected by some subtypes; others affect pigs, cats, birds, dogs and mice. Initially, this virus was treated as a non-fatal, simple virus in 2002. Afterwards, it started spreading to various countries, namely, America, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. In 2003, more than 1,000 patients were affected by SARS-Cov; it was called the black year of the microbiologist. In 2004, WHO announced a “state of emergency” for disease control and prevention. Several infected patients’ deaths were reported by Saudi Arabia in 2012. Afterwards, COVID-19 was identified and emerged from Wuhan city (Kumar, 2020).
COVID-19 in Spain and the Use of Geospatial Information
Published in Abbas Rajabifard, Greg Foliente, Daniel Paez, COVID-19 Pandemic, Geospatial Information, and Community Resilience, 2021
Carmen Femenia-Ribera, Gaspar Mora-Navarro
The state of emergency lasted just over three months (from 14 March to 21 June). At the end of the state of emergency, the central government returned powers to the regional governments. During this period, a four-stage plan for a transition to a new normality was introduced. Each stage lasted about two weeks. During these stages mobility was controlled to avoid the spread of the virus, and the borders between counties, regions, provinces, and local councils become very important – together with the associated geographical information (“Estado de alarma y Nueva normalidad. Medidas crisis sanitaria COVID-19,” [7]).
The clinician-patient interaction
Published in Paul M.W. Hackett, Christopher M. Hayre, Handbook of Ethnography in Healthcare Research, 2020
Under these circumstances, the clinician and the patient may each experience a bad encounter that produces cynicism, doubt, rejection, judgment, anxiety, and resistance, and these feelings may breach trust. It is important that the clinician will be attentive to the patient’s needs in the recovery phase in the hospital ward. If the patient feels the urgency of addressing his or her needs outside the operating room, she will view the value as high, and will feel that the clinician understands that she is in a state of emergency and will feel at the center, promoting trust (Gabay, 2019a, b).
Burnout for medical professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece; the role of primary care
Published in Hospital Practice, 2022
Gerasimos Panagiotis Milas, Vasileios Issaris, Nicholas Zareifopoulos
It is known that primary health care in Greece is understaffed and has been struggling because patients have immediate access to the hospital without having to visit a general practitioner first [14]. This results in primary care for those unable to visit a private physician being assigned to state hospital emergency departments. In addition, emergency department triage lacks general practitioners as most medical graduates do not choose this specialty, opting instead for internal medicine due to a perception of increased prestige compared to general practice [15]. For this reason, patients present to the hospital even for minor problems that could have been dealt with in a primary care setting, including COVID-19 patients. As a result of this, emergency department visit rates are greater than most hospitals can bear, with disastrous delays and deficiencies in care provided. It is evident that if Greece had a more organized primary health care system, regional medical centers could admit patients with mild COVID-19 and offer them supportive therapy with oxygen for a couple of days.
Improving practice through collaboration: Early experiences from the multi-site Spinal Cord Injury Implementation and Evaluation Quality Care Consortium
Published in The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2021
Emma A. Bateman, Vidya A. Sreenivasan, Farnoosh Farahani, Sheila Casemore, Andrea D. Chase, Jennifer Duley, Ivie K. Evbuomwan, Heather M. Flett, Anellina Ventre, B. Catharine Craven, Dalton L. Wolfe
Despite all the challenges, an unexpected benefit of the QIC arose from a change to service delivery that provided an opportunity for advocacy: through the SCI IEQCC, leaders from multiple sites rapidly identified a province-wide disruption to crucial services for persons with SCI/D that arose shortly after the provincial lockdown. After declaring a state of emergency in Ontario due to the COVID-19 pandemic, inpatients admitted for SCI/D rehabilitation were struggling to obtain usual funding from the provincial government for assistive devices, which precluded timely discharges. Because the SCI IEQCC included leadership representatives from all the inpatient SCI/D rehabilitation centers and Spinal Cord Injury Ontario, we were able to leverage the voice of local leaders, the clinical expertise of the rehabilitation sites, and Spinal Cord Injury Ontario’s strong government relations department to effectively advocate for the Ontario government to implement an emergency alternate process for automatic approval for inpatient assistive devices. The network was able to justify with lived experience and evidence why the government’s assistive devices program needed to modify its services swiftly to ensure timely funding and access to essential mobility devices during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although this service disruption was outside the scope of the SCI IEQCC activities, the collaborative nature of the network leaders, the frontline work of its contributors, and the partnership with Spinal Cord Injury Ontario led to the rapid identification and resolution of this health system-level problem.
Rehabilitation services lockdown during the COVID-19 emergency: the mental health response of caregivers of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2021
Serena Grumi, Livio Provenzi, Alice Gardani, Valentina Aramini, Erika Dargenio, Cecilia Naboni, Valeria Vacchini, Renato Borgatti
Despite the heterogeneity of the clinical characteristics of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities – which span from genetic syndromes and cerebral palsy to autism spectrum disorders and neurosensory and neuromuscular diseases [4] – these conditions imply varying levels of psychomotor delay and limited autonomy in daily life. Consequently, caring for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities implies emotional and psychological burdens for parents, with the risk of negative effects on their mental and physical health [5–7]. Caregivers may report high levels of stress which in turn may contribute to the emergence of symptoms of depression and/or anxiety [5,8]. The current state of emergency can therefore exacerbate the psychological risk condition for caregivers, as they need now to care for their children with special healthcare needs 24/7 and with limited or no support from specialists.