Telemedicine needed to diagnose and treat swallowing difficulties in COVID-19 patients, say physicians
COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the disease, have caused health care providers to change how they treat patients. Clinicians are now frequently using telemedicine to see their patients for routine checkups, saving office visits for emergencies. The same goes for rehabilitation. For example, researchers are looking for ways to improve the screening, assessment and treatment of patients with COVID-19 and dysphagia swallowing difficulties by doing it remotely.
Health care professionals whose work puts them in contact with the body areas frequented by SARS-CoV-2 such as the nose, mouth and airway share a responsibility for engaging patients in a manner that won t add to the spread of COVID-19. Risks need to be weighed before screenings, assessments and treatments are undertaken.
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IMAGE: Dysphagia - swallowing difficulties - in patients with COVID-19 should be diagnosed and treated by telemedicine to lessen risk to health care professionals, say Johns Hopkins Medicine and Providence VA. view more
Credit: Graphic created by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, with public domain images.
COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the disease, have caused health care providers to change how they treat patients. Clinicians are now frequently using telemedicine to see their patients for routine checkups, saving office visits for emergencies. The same goes for rehabilitation. For example, researchers are looking for ways to improve the screening, assessment and treatment of patients with COVID-19 and dysphagia swallowing difficulties by doing it remotely.