Managing LONG COVID Syndrome

Long COVID syndrome affects over 1 million people in the UK, with an estimated 35 million worldwide. The World Health Organization emphasizes the need for Recognition, Research, and Rehabilitation. This book is a comprehensive guide for healthcare professionals to diagnose, manage, and direct patients with long COVID syndrome, covering topics such as aetiopathogenesis, recognition, systemic involvement, investigations, management guidelines, available resources, and pain/fatigue management. It is also useful for candidates preparing for various examinations.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 300 pages
Publication date: 01 March 2022
Publisher: TFM Publishing Ltd

Over ten percent of people infected with the COVID virus will suffer with long COVID syndrome. Up until now, more than one million people have been affected with this syndrome in the United Kingdom alone, and the incidence worldwide is estimated to be more than 35 million people, although this may be the tip of the iceberg. The World Health Organization has highlighted a need for the three Rs -- Recognition, Research, and Rehabilitation. Long COVID syndrome can be frustrating and disabling, even many months or years after the infection; sufferers complain of fatigue, pain, post-exertional malaise, cognitive dysfunction, and many other systemic symptoms. It can be challenging for healthcare professionals to recognize the disease and for patients who are suffering from the condition, it can have a wide and far-reaching impact on their lives and day-to-day activities. Being a relatively new condition, many healthcare professionals, now more than ever, need to have the requisite knowledge to recognize and manage this severely debilitating disease. This book will be useful to all frontline healthcare professionals to help diagnose, manage, and direct patients to the available resources. General practitioners, physiotherapists, pain therapists, nurses, surgeons, physicians, junior doctors, psychologists, medical students, and other clinicians will be able to update their knowledge on long COVID syndrome with this easy-to-read book. Patients will also find the book useful to understand the basis of the disease and how they can seek help. This comprehensive treatise covers a wide variety of topics on long COVID syndrome, including the aetiopathogenesis, recognition, systemic involvement, investigations, guidelines on management, available resources, systemic management, and pain/fatigue management.

Over ten percent of people infected with the COVID virus will suffer with long COVID syndrome. Up until now, more than one million people have been affected with this syndrome in the United Kingdom alone, and the incidence worldwide is estimated to be more than 35 million people, although this may be the tip of the iceberg. The World Health Organization has highlighted a need for the three Rs -- Recognition, Research, and Rehabilitation. Long COVID syndrome can be frustrating and disabling, even many months or years after the infection; sufferers complain of fatigue, pain, post-exertional malaise, cognitive dysfunction, and many other systemic symptoms. It can be challenging for healthcare professionals to recognize the disease and for patients who are suffering from the condition, it can have a wide and far-reaching impact on their lives and day-to-day activities. Being a relatively new condition, many healthcare professionals, now more than ever, need to have the requisite knowledge to recognize and manage this severely debilitating disease. This book will be useful to all frontline healthcare professionals to help diagnose, manage, and direct patients to the available resources. General practitioners, physiotherapists, pain therapists, nurses, surgeons, physicians, junior doctors, psychologists, medical students, and other clinicians will be able to update their knowledge on long COVID syndrome with this easy-to-read book. Patients will also find the book useful to understand the basis of the disease and how they can seek help. This comprehensive treatise covers a wide variety of topics on long COVID syndrome, including the aetiopathogenesis, recognition, systemic involvement, investigations, guidelines on management, available resources, systemic management, and pain/fatigue management.

Weight: 612g
Dimension: 210 x 150 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781913755201