Extensive Saliva based COVID-19 testing – the way forward to curtail the global pandemic?

Varma, Amit; Abubaker, Muneer; Dergaa, Ismail

doi:10.31254/jmr.2020.6612

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“…From a case report in Scotland [20], the urticaria presented 2 days before the typical respiratory symptoms of COVID-19 and similar findings were found in a French study [21]. A case report of an 8-year-old girl [22] who presented with only an urticarial rash, no respiratory symptoms but positive for COVID 19 seems to be a recurring observation in children, one could think if all the children with rashes that do not respond to conventional measures should be offered PCR testing or at least antigen testing [3,5].…”

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“…With over 125 million people infected with COVID-19 globally and more than 2.7 million deaths since the beginning of the pandemic [1], the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended the implementation of public health measures, such as isolation of all individuals suspected of infection with this disease for a 14-day quarantine period, amongst others. Many governments have also introduced "social distancing" and "lock-downs" of varying stringency of entire populations to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 [2][3][4][5][6][7].…”

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Common Dermatological Complications of COVID 19: How Does it Affect the Skin?

Dergaa

2021

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The novel corona virus disease of COVID-19 is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. It is primarily a respiratory virus, hence much of the attention has been focused on the respiratory and cardiovascular complications. Nevertheless, it affects other systems such as cutaneous, renal, neurological, and musculoskeletal. In this review, we will discuss the dermatological features and complications of COVID-19: The association of cutaneous signs and symptoms with COVID19 is being studied all over the world, primarily to see whether these dermatoses can aid in the early detection of SARSCoV2 infection. Dermatological manifestations in patients of all ages can range from erythematous rash, urticaria, livedo reticularis and acrocyanosis. Similarly, dermatologists who treat COVID-19 patients with biologics or immunomodulators for inflammatory dermatoses should exercise caution and follow precise guidelines when modifying the doses of these drugs. There are several types of skin findings described in association with COVID-19. This review includes common, rare, and occupational cutaneous exhibitions. During this pandemic, health care worker as well as public must apply strict infection control measures such as wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) for long periods, extensive hand washing and use of alcohol-based sanitizers, which lead to new skin manifestations, examples include contact dermatitis, contact irritant dermatitis, blisters, contact urticaria and secondary infections. It can also lead to exacerbation of many pre-existing dermatoses like eczema, psoriasis, and different variants of dermatitis. This has undoubtedly had significant impacts on compliance with such measures and subsequently time taken off work. It is important to distinguish that the dermatological conditions are not currently a criterion for diagnosis for COVID-19, although that might change as we have more emerging evidence. Whilst most of these dermatological findings are self-resolving focus should be on treating post-COVID-19 skin complications effectively. We think, recognition of these cutaneous features could aid the early diagnosis of COVID-19 and therefore control the epidemic, especially in areas where doing the conventional tests might be scarce or not even available.

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Common Dermatological Complications of COVID 19: How Does it Affect the Skin?

Dergaa

2021

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“…In addition to limited patient's capacity, further standards shall be taken at Wellness to ensure patients having low risk of contracting COVID-19. Such measures include social distancing, assuring EHTERAZ (Health status and geo localisation application to track COVID-19 status amongst patients) is checked on entrance (Varma et al 2020b), encouraging hand hygiene, thermal and symptom screening, and the implementation of Saliva based covid-19 test (Varma et al 2020a) or COVID-19 Rapid antigen test (Dergaa et al 2021).…”

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Wellness Program Within Primary Health Care: How to Avoid “No Show” to Planned Appointments? – A Patient-Centred Care Perspective

Musa

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Muraikhi

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Background: Wellness program is a service provided by Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) to deliver an exercise program dedicated to patients with unhealthy lifestyle. Failing to cancel health care appointments in advance "no show" results in a vacant appointment slot that cannot be offered to other patients, which in turn will have an adverse impact on management plan and expected health outcome measures. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to implement a patient-centred care (PCC) program as an interventional approach to engage patients in changing behaviour and to encourage selfawareness to improve health status. Another aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an appointment reminder system (either short message service (SMS) or telephone call) on completion rate of the 12-week Wellness program. Methods: Amongst 112 patients, 50 participants (age: 49.9 ± 12.56 years; height: 1.61 ± 0.08 m; body mass: 75.06 ± 15 kg; body mass index (BMI): 28.66 ± 3.51 kg/m 2 ) completed two surveys as part of the PCC program. The first survey was regarding the appointment reminder's method preference. Accordingly, the demanded reminder system has been implemented as per patients' preferences and then the rate of completion of the 12-weeks-wellness-program has been compared to the months preceding the intervention to demonstrate the effectiveness of this new reminder system. Towards the end of the study, a second survey on patients' satisfaction level with regard the new reminder system has been completed. Results: The PCC program showed that majority of the patients were in favour of an appointment reminder system through SMS text message and telephone calls. Implementing this tool based on patient preference resulted in a high improvement of the completion rate of the Wellness program. Conclusions: This study provides insight on the efficacy of implementing a PCC program in Wellness Centre as well as the effectiveness of an appointment reminder system in improving the completion rate of Wellness program in a primary health care facility. Completing the Wellness program may lead to improved lifestyle behaviour and health outcomes by complying with international physical activity recommendations from the American College of Exercise Medicine (ACEM) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

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“…However, COVID-19 has been an exceptional challenge to different sectors of the healthcare system, more so to the public health departments and World Health Organization (WHO). Quite a few measures such as the compulsory use of masks in public, social distancing, mass testing, and contact tracing in addition to lock-down of states and countries for various lengths of time have been implemented and proven partially successful in curbing the spread of the virus so far (10,11,12). However, despite these efforts globally, COVID-19 continues to spread like wildfire across the globe with the first wave being followed by a second, and in some countries, even a third wave making it evident that these measures alone may not draw a curtain on this pandemic yet.…”

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