DGS defines guidelines for the ‘long growing covid’ in Portugal – Coronavirus
The Directorate-General for Health published today as guidelines for the diagnosis and clinical approach of the long covid’, which is “growing” in Portugal and which can “interfere with the quality of life” of approved people.
“The most necessary spectrum of symptoms – in the post-covid-19 condition, includes fatigue, dyspnea (director’s failure, depression and anxiety and dysfunction”, advances the general health standard, Graça Freitas, and addressed to health professionals.
Also known as `long covid-, the post-covid-19 condition is defined as a spectrum of symptoms that occur in people with probable infection or beginning of the acute phase with SARS-CoV-2, usually the beginning of the acute phase of the infection and months after with at least two months in duration.
“Symptoms can develop during or after CoV-2, impacting the person’s quality of life with an alternative diagnosis and are not explained after SARS-CoV-2,” the published standard says.
The `long lifespan’ has repercussions, still with proven quality, that interfere with people still compatible with the quality of life and with the socioeconomic impact of the four weeks coming to resistance, which considers the social impact of the four weeks coming to “persistence” being the majority of care, in the local health care monitoring of SARSV-2 infections”.
According to those now published, the rules for linking primary health care and care “should optimize an articulation between the different levels of care”.
“At the hospital level, as institutions should promote multidisciplinary and multispecialized work, a circuit that allows adequate articulation with primary health care, within the scope of the management of the post-covid-19 condition and perspective of continuity of care”, see a DGS.
The main objective of the approach provided for in the ‘long covid’ standard is the early recognition of symptoms and signs that may indicate “applications and threats to the recovery of symptomatic and functional life” of the person to receive.
Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that between 10% and 20% of people with covid-19 suffer from symptoms after recovering from the acute phase of the infection, an “unpredictable and debilitating” condition that also affects mental health.
“Although data are rare, recent months show that 10% of people with illness continue for weeks or experiences after the acute phase of infection,” reads the WHO 2021 Health Report released on March 10.
“The post-covid-19 condition is unpredictable and debilitating and can subsequently lead to mental health, such as worries, depression and post-traumatic symptomatology”, warns the chapter of the report dedicated to the pandemic.
According to the WHO Europe document, what influences the development and severity of ‘long covid’ is, so far, unknown, but does not seem to be related to the severity of the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection or the duration of the symptoms. associated symptoms are, however, more common in people who have been hospitalized.
The absolute number is expected to increase as new occurrences of infection occur in the European region and more research and surveillance is needed” to this specific condition caused by covid-19, the document added.
Covid-19 has caused at least 6,011,769 deaths worldwide since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the latest report by the Agence France-Presse.
The disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
The Ómicron variant that spreads and suffers in the world quickly, became since the first time, in November, South Africa.