Evaluation and diagnosis of covid illness

Danny Van Valkinburgh; Brian T. Wessman

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-85636-6_4

Evaluation and diagnosis of covid illness

Danny Van Valkinburgh
, Brian T. Wessman

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Abstract

The role of the emergency department (ED) in the healthcare setting is diagnosing, treating, and dispositioning patients appropriately. In the backdrop of a pandemic like COVID-19, the ED assumes additional roles in healthcare management. One of the most important functions is to correctly identify patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Learning which patients to test and the optimal testing strategy created difficulties for emergency medicine physicians and administrators. Patient symptoms or routine lab work alone is insufficient to diagnose COVID-19. Diagnostic imaging with CT alone is feasible but impractical as the lone diagnostic test in a busy ED. Direct viral testing is usually insufficient to make an accurate diagnosis. Physicians must learn to incorporate patient symptoms, routine labs, diagnostic imaging, and SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing to diagnose and treat patients with COVID-19 accurately. This chapter will review the evaluation and diagnosis of the COVID-19 illness for the emergency medicine provider.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Critical Care of COVID-19 in the Emergency Department
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	33-42
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030856366
ISBN (Print)	9783030856359
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85636-6_4
State	Published - Nov 17 2021

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COVID-19
Diagnosis and evaluation
SARS-CoV-2

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