Telemedicine Clinic for Renal Transplant Patients During Covid-19 Pandemic

Alkindi, F.; Hashmey, Rayhan; Hammadi, Ahmed Al; AlMansoori, Dalal; Chaaban, A.; AlHakim, Mohammed; Hussain, Qutaiba; Aqeel, Saleem; Khan, Asad; Boobes, Y.

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“…The implementation of an efficient ambulatory management became rapidly necessary. 34,35 In this line, the New Yorker experience retrospectively provides a helpful model for the rapid implementation of telemedicine to the transplant community. 27 Both video and telephone-only encounters allow to develop a home management strategy and outpatient care, but first require technical issues to be fixed, including remote access and security clearances for medical record and communications.…”

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“…Over a few months, medical innovations and telehealth provided efficient solutions to provide efficient health care during the pandemic and are currently unavoidable to warrant a high-quality practice given the persistent circulation of SARS-CoV-2 worldwide. 35 The maintenance of such initiative involving more actors, including social workers, nurses, and surgeons, will undoubtedly be fruitful in the post-COVID period.…”

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Solid Organ Transplantation in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons from France

Zaidan

Legendre

2020

Transplantation

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has significantly upended solid organ transplant (SOT) practice around the world. Early reports confirmed the heavy burden of COVID-19 in SOT recipients with mortality rates reaching up to 35%. Because most transplant recipients harbored multiple comorbidities known to be associated with a severe course of COVID-19, the true impact of immunosuppression by itself remained an unsolved issue. Transplant societies have initially recommended to postpone nonurgent renal transplantations, while trying to maintain life-saving transplant programs, such as heart, lung, and liver transplantations. The pandemic thus resulted in an unprecedented and sudden drop of transplant activity worldwide. Moreover, the best treatment strategy in infected patients was challenging. Both reduction of immunosuppression and use of targeted therapies aiming at counteracting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection were the 2 faces of the therapeutic armamentarium. Recent controlled studies have better delineated the basis of mitigating and management strategies to improve patients' outcome. Nevertheless, and given the persistence of circulating virus, evidence-based recommendations in SOT recipients remain unclear. The resumption of transplant activity should be tailored with careful selection of both donors and recipients. Transplant decision should be made on a case-by-case basis after thorough assessment of the risks and benefits.

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Solid Organ Transplantation in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons from France

Zaidan

Legendre

2020

Transplantation

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“…Regionally speaking, in Egypt telemedicine services were experimentally utilized to deliver dermatological consultations and neurosurgical post-operative care to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission with high degrees of success [14][15].…”

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COVID-19 Clinical Manifestations & Concerns among the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's 937 Health Hotline Callers in Jeddah

Moammer

Mandoura

2021

JPRI

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The on-going COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted telehealth as a crucial tool in delivering high quality healthcare with increased efficiency. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia this has been evidently clear with the establishment of the robust Ministry of Health 937 COVID-19 hotline. The objectives of our study are to describe the clinical patterns of COVID-19, identify the most common concerns of the 937 hotline callers and to identify the associations between the clinical presentation of COVID-19 and risk factors of the patients.through an Analytic Cross-Sectional study design. Results : The average age was 36.8 ± 15.7 years, 61.1% were males and 38.9% were females. 69.3% were Saudi and 30.7% were non-Saudis. 82.5% employed, whilst 17.5% were unemployed.The most commonly reported symptoms were fever, followed by fatigue and cough respectively. With 41.8%, 28.2% and 23.2% of participants reporting those symptoms respectively. The most significant predictors of developing shortness of breath due to COVID-19 was chronic lung disease OR=5.7pvalue >0.01, chronic kidney disease, OR = 4.8 p value >0.02 and immunocompromised state OR = 19 >0.01. 82% of all calls to the hotline were related to COVID-19 testing, and 11% of all calls resulted in the caller receiving medical counselling and/or treatment without having to make a physical visit to a healthcare provider. Conclusion : A well-designed telehealth program can mitigate the need for a physical visit to the emergency room or clinic and as such reduce the load on front-line healthcare workers, reducing transmission and improving outcomes during infectious disease epidemics. It can also provide valuable insights into the presentation and risk factors of a new disease to aid in the prevention, diagnosis, management and control of the disease.

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Telemedicine Clinic for Renal Transplant Patients During Covid-19 Pandemic

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Solid Organ Transplantation in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons from France

Solid Organ Transplantation in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons from France

COVID-19 Clinical Manifestations & Concerns among the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's 937 Health Hotline Callers in Jeddah

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