Who is the hospital waiting for?
Now hospitalization in a health care institution awaits patients with moderate
In addition, hospitalization is required if there is a suspicion that the patient needs to be prescribed hydroxychloroquine.It is an antimalarial drug derived from 4-aminoquinoline.It also has moderate immunosuppressive, specific and non-specific anti-inflammatory effects in autoimmune diseases.
What is a moderate form of the disease?
You can distinguish between a moderate form of the disease from moderate and mild. Severe cases are more obvious.
It is worth paying attention to breathing.respiratory failure and confirmed the presence of a mild form of pneumonia, then the patient has a disease of moderate severity.
Also, this condition is confirmed if there are signs of a malfunction of the internal organs.
The patient must be conscious. It is worth checking your breathing and heart rate: the respiratory rate should not exceed 22 per minute, and the number of heart contractions should be more than 55 and less than 110 heart beats per minute.
In addition, if the patient is moderate, thenhe has no chest pain and hemoptysis. It is important to check the oxygen in the blood: the percentage of saturation should be at least 95%. Note that systolic blood pressure should exceed an indicator of 90 mm RT. Art.
Also, for patients with a moderate form of the disease, a situation may occur when the patient has ARVI. But at the same time, the temperature should be above 38.5 ° C, cough and pronounced weakness.
Aggravating factors in Coronavirus.All Options
Doctors attribute ages to patients over 55 years of age. In addition, you should be wary if the patient has:
- Hormonal disorders: morbid obesity (body mass index greater than or equal to 40) and diabetes mellitus.
- Chronic lung and heart diseases: chronic lung pathology (bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis), chronic cardiovascular pathology with heart failure.
- Oncology and immunodeficiency: malignant neoplasms, diseases that are treated with immunosuppressive, glucocorticoid drugs, solid organ or bone marrow transplantation, HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, oncohematological and systemic connective tissue diseases.
If patients with coronavirus infection do not have aggravating factors, they are not at risk and they do not have severe pneumonia, then they will receive medical assistance at home.
As it was before?
Previously, by order of the Ministry of Health, everyone was hospitalizedpatients with pneumonia or acute respiratory distress syndrome with infection - both with confirmed COVID-19 or suspected infection. The severity of pneumonia was also not taken into account, as were risk factors.
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