28 min
What Do We Know About Long Covid The BMJ Podcast
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- Medicine
Trisha Greenhalgh, professor of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford has been a powerhouse of covid-19 evidence synthesis. She pulled together advice on doing remote consultations, on wearing masks to prevent spread, and a host of other information.
She’s now turning her attention to “long-covid” - as we learn more about the disease, it’s becoming apparent that it’s not just an acute infection, patients are reporting chronic long term consequences of having the virus.
In this podcast, she describes what we know about long-covid, where the uncertainty lies, and what clinicians should be doing to help patients who are experiencing the symptoms.
Management of post-acute covid-19 in primary care
https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3026
Trisha Greenhalgh, professor of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford has been a powerhouse of covid-19 evidence synthesis. She pulled together advice on doing remote consultations, on wearing masks to prevent spread, and a host of other information.
She’s now turning her attention to “long-covid” - as we learn more about the disease, it’s becoming apparent that it’s not just an acute infection, patients are reporting chronic long term consequences of having the virus.
In this podcast, she describes what we know about long-covid, where the uncertainty lies, and what clinicians should be doing to help patients who are experiencing the symptoms.
Management of post-acute covid-19 in primary care
https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3026
28 min