The management of COVID-19 is challenging due to the lack of clear information about the Sars-Cov2 and recommendations for specific treatment regimens. The scale of the pandemic has also exacerbated the situation, with health care systems under stress from the high volume of COVID-19 patients.
In Demystifying COVID-19: Understanding the Disease, Its Diagnosis, and Treatment, medical experts explain many aspects about the COVID-19 pandemic, including guidelines to minimize risk of infection, diagnostic methods, treatment, real scenarios in the course of the disease and issues that need attention in specific patient groups. The book equips both general readers and healthcare professionals with key information required to understand COVID-19 and navigate a situation typical to a pandemic.
Public health officials who wish to mobilize awareness campaigns for the benefit of the general public can also find value in the comprehensive information presented in this reference.
Key Features:
In Demystifying COVID-19: Understanding the Disease, Its Diagnosis, and Treatment, medical experts explain many aspects about the COVID-19 pandemic, including guidelines to minimize risk of infection, diagnostic methods, treatment, real scenarios in the course of the disease and issues that need attention in specific patient groups. The book equips both general readers and healthcare professionals with key information required to understand COVID-19 and navigate a situation typical to a pandemic.
Public health officials who wish to mobilize awareness campaigns for the benefit of the general public can also find value in the comprehensive information presented in this reference.
Key Features:
- 16 chapters covering several aspects of COVID-19 including risk management, clinical diagnosis and treatment, public health issues and vaccines
- Unique Q&A format which presents easy-to-understand information for all types of readers
- Presents basic clinical information
- Provides information for the management of COVID-19 in special patients (patients with comorbidities, the elderly, newborns, children, and pregnant women)
- Bibliographic References for further reading
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Contagion of the Pandemics: The Situation in the World- Fatality and Mortality Differences Between Countries
- Which Countries Have the Highest Number of Cases?
- To Normalize or Not to Normalize, It is the Main Question!
- Contagiousness of Coronavirus
- In What Ways is Coronavirus Transmitted?
- Where is the Contamination Happening?
- Is It Airborne?
- Air Conditioning + 1 Patient = 10 Patients: Who is Guilty?
- How is the Air Conditioner Cleaned?
- How Should We Clean Our Air Conditioner?
- Conclusion
- References
Chapter 2 How Can a Country Defeat COVID-19? Value of R0, Rt and Re 17
- What are R0, Rt, and Re?
- Incubation Period
- Principles of Surveillance and Struggle with the Pandemic: How
- Countries Differ from Each Other?
- How Effective is Home Stay, Social / Individual Isolation In
- Preventing the Spread of COVID-19?
- Belgium Has a Very Different Case Situation
- Herd Immunity and the 'Second Wave' Problem: Myth or Truth?
- Is the ‘Ordinary Citizen’ Also Guilty? Which Mistakes Did They Do
- In the Pandemic and ‘Normalization’?
- How Does this Disease End?
- The Spanish Flu Experiences of 1918: Does History Light Our Way?
- Why is It Called ‘Spanish Flu’?
- Is It Different from Other Flu Syndromes?
- What Happened in the Usa?
- Mass Graves Were Opened in the Usa in September 1918 due to Massive Death Toll
- References
Chapter 3 Comorbid Diseases and COVID-19: Copd, Smoking, Obesity,
- Diabetes, Cancer, and Kidney Failure
- The Relationship Between COVID-19 Fatality Rate And
- Comorbidities
- Pulmonary Diseases and COVID-19
- Could COVID-19 Infection Also Cause Copd-Aa?
- Are Patients with Copd or Asthma at High Risk for Contracting COVID-19?
- Are Patients with Copd at High Risk for Severe COVID-19 and Death?
- How are the Follow-Up and Treatment of Copd and Copd-Aa Cases During The
- Pandemics?
- Are Systemic Corticosteroids (Cst) Used in Copd-Aa During Pandemic?
- Are There Any Changes for Asthma Patients?
- How is an Asthma Attack Treated while Infected with COVID-19?
- Is the Use of Nebulizers Recommended in the Treatment of Asthma/Copd During
- The COVID-19 Outbreak?
- Does Smoking and Copd Development Alter Expression of Ace2 Receptors?
- Does Smoking Affect Clinical Course?
- Is Smoking Also Effective in Influenza?
- Is COVID-19 More Severe in Smokers?
- What are the Key Findings of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyzes with High
- Level of Evidence?
- What is “Smoker's Paradox” (Sp), are There Any Justifications?
- Obesity and COVID-19
- Numerical Data Showing the Relationship Between Obesity and COVID-19
- Diabetes and COVID-19
- In a Diabetic Patient Hospitalized in the COVID-19 Process, There Will be 5 Essential
- Steps of Management
- Cancer and COVID-19
- Why are Cancer Patients More Disadvantaged in Terms of COVID-19?
- Are There Any More Special Risk Groups Among People with Cancer?
- Can Cancer be Diagnosed During the Pandemic Period, and Can Interventions Be
- Performed as Before?
- Are There Specific Difficulties in Diagnostic Interventions for COVID-19?
- Are There Specific Difficulties for Cancer Patients Regarding Care and Treatment?
- Is There Any Difference Regarding the Psychological Conditions of Cancer Patients in This Period?
- The Risk of Reactive or Major Depression Will be Further
- Increased
- What are the General Messages?
- Renal Failure (Rf), Acute Kidney Injury (Aki) and COVID-19
- Lung-Kidney Axis (Lka): a New Pathway for Kidney Damage?
- Conclusion
- References
Chapter 4 Risks and Losses of Healthcare Workers in the Pandemic
- Era
- Phenomena Proven to Increase the Risk of COVID-19 Transmission In
- Hcw
- Is COVID-19 Risky for Hcw?
- How Much Risk COVID-19 Impose on Hcw?
- Headlines from Various Countries
- The Situation in Turkey
- Situations Increasing the Risk of Infection to Hcw
- Findings
- Precautions and Measures
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Sequence of Control Measures
- Infection Protection and Control Measures
- Psychosocial Problems in Hcw During the Pandemics
- What Kind of Interventions Can be Pursued to Support the Resilience and Mental Health Of
- Frontline Hcw During the Pandemic?
- Is There Any Good News to Convey?
- Conclusion
- References
Chapter 5 What Kind of Disease is This? Signs and Symptoms, Predictors
- Of Clinical Course and Management
- Do Patients Who are Diagnosed Necessarily Have Symptoms?
- Asymptomatic and Symptomatic… is There a 3Rd Way?
- Can a Mild-Looking Patient Worsen Quickly?
- Which Markers Can We Use to Predict Clinical Worsening?
- Radiological Criteria
- Typical Case
- How are COVID and Cough Related?
- Cough in Terms of Contagiousness
- Pharmacological Methods to Relieve Cough
- Gastrointestinal Complaints and Findings in the Course of COVID-
- 19
- Corona Facts: Which is Correct?
- Conclusion
- References
Chapter 6 Diagnosis of COVID-19: Which Tests to Do? Laboratory And
- Radiological Adjuncts to Recognition
- Laboratory Tests
- Cytokines and Related Findings
- Laboratory Values Can Also Highlight the Stages of the Disease
- Do Antibody Tests Give Accurate Results in the Early Period After Infection?
- Chest Imaging - Radiological Examinations
- Which Should We Choose? X-Ray, Ct, Usg, or Mr?
- Case Example and Time Course of the Disease
- Conclusion
- References
Chapter 7 Cardiovascular Disease, Myocarditis, Infarctions, And
- COVID-19
- Key Findings from Different Database Studies
- Are Ethnic Differences Important for COVID-19?
- Ht and COVID-19
- Myocardial Injury Severity and Mortality
- How Much Myocardial Damage Occurs in COVID-19?
- In Whom Does Myocardial Damage Occur and How Do We Identify It?
- Any Pathological Finding?
- Global View of Myocardial Infarction (Stemi / Nstemi) After COVID-19
- Did the Pandemic Affect Heart Attacks?
- What Should be Done?
- COVID-19 and Myocardial Damage, Myocarditis
- Fulminant Myocarditis (Fm)
- Symptoms and Signs in Myocarditis
- Ancillary Studies
- Thrombotic Events, Bleeding, Coagulopathies, and COVID-19
- Cytokine-Mediated Alveolar Inflammation Triggers the Formation of Microthrombi in The
- Pulmonary Vasculature, Which Can Culminate into Thrombi or Embolism in Severe Cases 133
- Increased D-Dimer, Pt, Aptt, Crp, Esr, and Pct Levels Noted on Presentation Were
- Found to be Associated with Death in COVID-19 Patients (Al-Samkari Et Al., 2020)
- Additional Note: Mean Values of Fibrinogen, Ferritin, Pct are Also Higher in Patients
- With Thrombosis
- Pathological Mechanism
- Conclusion
- References
Chapter 8 Gastrointestinal Signs and Symptoms in the Course Of
- COVID-19
- Introduction
- How Important is Gis in the Pathophysiology of the Virus?
- Which Gi Findings Do We Mention About?
- Children and Gi Complaints
- Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (Ibd) and COVID-19
- Hepatic Damage and COVID-19
- Conclusion
- References
Chapter 9 is Our Psychology Affected by the Pandemic? How?
- What are Stress Reactions? What Can We Do?
- Why are We Stressed During this Period?
- Adverse Emotional, Physical, or Cognitive Responses That Arise In
- Response to the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Include
- COVID-19 and Our Psychology: What Do the Researchers Say?
- COVID-19 and Dealing with Stress
- Coping with Stress
- Awareness of Emotions
- Social Relations
- Try Not to Disturb Your Routine and Sleep Patterns
- Do Hobbies Work?
- What Does Physical Activity Bring Us?
- Bias and Stigmatization
- Conclusion
- References
Chapter 10 COVID-19 and Our Brain: What's New?
- Introduction
- How Can COVID-19 Affect the Brain and Nervous System?
- What Kind of Damage Does COVID-19 Cause in the Brain?
- What Kinds of Neurological Signs and Symptoms Do COVID-19 Can Be
- Evident?
- Does It Have Long-Term Effects on the Cns?
- Effects of COVID-19 on People with Neurological Disorders
- Does COVID-19 Increase the Risk of Stroke?
- Many Patients Mention Loss of Smell / Taste
- Is There an Association Between Anosmia and Respiratory Failure? 172
- Does COVID-19 Trigger Brain Tissue Inflammation (Encephalitis)?
- What are the Treatment Methods After COVID-19 Inflicts the Cns? 175
- Conclusion
- References
Chapter 11 COVID-19 Pneumonia and Ards: The Real Killer?
- Definition
- Clinical Features
- Diagnosis
- The Most Common Ct Findings on Presentation (Adapted from Pan
- Et Al, 2020)
- Differential Diagnoses
- Other Situations to be Distinguished
- Serum Antibody Detection
- Laboratory Findings
- Risk Factors for Severe Disease
- Ards
- Treatment of Pneumonia and Ards
- Hypoxia Management in Severe and Critical COVID-19 Patient
- Specific Drug Treatments
- Conclusion
- References
Chapter 12 Pregnancy, COVID-19, and Children: Dangerous Trio?
- What are the Characteristics of Pregnant Women with COVID-19? 208
- Should There be a Different Warning for Pregnant Healthcare Workers?
- Could the Pregnant Women with COVID-19 Transmit the Disease to the Baby?
- How is Protection from COVID-19 During Pregnancy?
- What are the General Treatment Methods in Pregnant Women?
- Are the Drugs Used in the Treatment of COVID-19 Harmful During Pregnancy?
- Can the Woman with COVID-19 Breastfeed Her Baby?
- Is There Anything to Pay Attention to After Birth?
- Can Children Take COVID-19 Medications Used by Adults?
- COVID-19 in Children: It is Not a Fairy Tale, It is a Reality
- Are the Children “Carriers of COVID-19”?
- Are the Signs and Symptoms in Children Different from Adults?
- Is COVID-19 More Risky for Children with Asthma or Allergies? What are the Risks?
- Are the Laboratory Findings Different in Children?
- Which Children Get COVID-19?
- How is the COVID-19 Virus Transmitted to Children?
- Should Masks and Gloves be Used for Children Who are Going Out Necessarily?
- Since the Mortality Rate in Children is Close to Zero, COVID-19 Has Nothing to Do With
- Children, Right?
- Should Children be Locked Up at Home?
- Does the Baby's Breastfeeding Affect the COVID-19 Clinical Course?
- How is the Diagnosis Made?
- Imaging Principles for Pediatric COVID-19 Suspected Cases
- Can Sequential Cxr be Requested?
- Can Cxr be Ordered After Recovery?
- Discharge Criteria
- How Can We Tell Kids About COVID-19?
- Conclusion
- References
Chapter 13 COVID-19 and the Elderly: is It Different from the Young? 229
- What Kind of Symptoms Should Raise Suspicion of COVID-19 in The
- Elderly?
- Is There Any Difference Between Other Epidemics and COVID-19 In
- This Regard?
- Is COVID-19 Different in the Elderly?
Author
- Ozgur Karcioglu
- Selman Yeniocak
- Mandana Hosseinzadeh
