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Management of post-acute COVID-19 in primary care

from The BMJ

Management of post-acute COVID-19 in primary care The BMJ Post-acute COVID-19 (“long COVID”) seems to be a multisystem disease, sometimes occurring after a relatively mild acute illness. Clinical management requires a whole-patient perspective. This article, intended for primary care clinicians, relates to the patient who has a delayed recovery from an episode of COVID-19 that was managed in the community or in a standard hospital ward. Broadly, such patients can be divided into those who may have serious sequelae (such as thromboembolic complications) and those with a non-specific clinical picture, often dominated by fatigue and breathlessness. The specialist rehabilitation needs of a third group, COVID-19 patients whose acute illness required intensive care, have been covered elsewhere. READ MORE

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