Full Description
The pandemic is by no means over. Although we have vaccines, many conflicting reports regarding their efficacy and safety have confused many. This has resulted in a substantial size of the population to stay away from being vaccinated. Until now there are no antiviral medications that we can use to effectively halt the progress of the disease in those who have contracted it.
We are thus left to deal with COVID-19 without any cure in sight. As there is no magic bullet in sight, we are left with our ingenuity, courage, and compassionate bedside care, using our tools to the best of our ability. Employing this approach, we believe early treatment may assuage this terrible disease.
This book deals with this appalling situation in a comprehensive manner by providing health care workers with solutions and strategies to deal effectively and efficiently to help patients overcome this terrible viral infection. These are strategies and solutions that have worked very well in real-life situations and have proved to be effective and reliable. These take into account not only various stages of the COVID-19 infection but also deal with the immense isolation that the disease has caused along with other satellite problems.
This book not only helps to deal with the health care crisis but goes beyond by anticipating and preventing possible long-term complications and sequelae that follow COVID-19 infections.
The unique selling points of this book include:
A global international and practical perspective to care written by international authors.
The majority of the authors are not only clinicians, scientists, and scholars, they have also personally cared for thousands of patients afflicted and critically ill with COVID-19.
It is thorough in its approach and covers everything from epidemiology to management.
Contents
1. Epidemiology of COVID-19
2. Paradigm Shifts in Understanding SARS-CoV-2 Virology and Disease
3. COVID-19 Testing
4. COVID-19 Prevention and Vaccines
5. Cardinal Manifestations of COVID-19
6. Cardiovascular Manifestations of COVID-19
7. Pulmonary Manifestations of COVID-19
8. COVID-19-Associated Renal Involvement and Acute Kidney Injury
9. Gastrointestinal Complications of COVID-19
10. Surveying the Association between SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) and Its Neurological Manifestations: An Overview
11. Cutaneous Manifestations of SARS-CoV-2
12. Pharmacotherapy of COVID-19
13. Hospital Medicine
14. COVID-19 and Emergency Medicine
15. COVID-19 and Anesthesia
16. Tracheostomy during COVID-19 Pandemic
17. Donning and Doffing
18. Outpatient Management
19. Telemedicine and the COVID-19 Pandemic
20. Palliative Care during COVID-19
21. Comorbidities and COVID-19 Perspectives and Challenges
