The NHS has relaxed infection prevention and control (IPC) requirements for hospitals and GP practices that were introduced during the pandemic as it seeks to free up capacity to tackle the huge treatment backlog. Revised guidance from NHS England and NHS Improvement1 published last week says ...
Speed up recovery if you do get the COVID-19 infection Reduce your risk of hospitalisation or serious outcomes Protect against different variants of the virus The vaccination is recommended for people at higher risk from COVID-19. This includes, but is not limited to: Those aged 65 and over...
1 Shared decision-making regarding timing of surgery after SARS-CoV-2 infection between patient and multidisciplinary clinical teams must consider: severity of the initial infection; ongoing symptoms of COVID- 19; comorbid and functional status,...
1 Shared decision-making regarding timing of surgery after SARS-CoV-2 infection between patient and multidisciplinary clinical teams must consider: severity of the initial infection; ongoing symptoms of COVID- 19; comorbid and functional status, b...
other patients and the public, planned surgery should not be considered during the period that a patient may be infectious. Precautions should be undertaken to prevent pre- and peri-operative infection, especially in higher risk patients. Elective surgery should not be scheduled within 7 weeks of ...
Women who have been hospitalized with COVID-19 are more than 30 percent less likely to feel fully recovered 12 months after their infection than men. That's the finding of a major new UK study into 'Long COVID'. The report inLancet Respiratory Medicinealso found tha...
Prof Altmann and other researchers are concerned that with the imminent relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions on 19 July, which seems almost certain to be followed by a surge in infection rates, the result could be hundreds of thousands of long COVID cases in the coming months. He told the ...
infection (within 28 d of infection with a ± 14-d grace period for clinical coding delays) in the primary care record. Their index date was assigned as the date of confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 infection. SNOMED CT codes for defining COVID-19 are listed in Supplementary Table12a,b....
(NHS) COVID-19 app for England and Wales, from its launch on 24 September 2020 to the end of December 2020. It was used regularly by approximately 16.5 million users (28% of the total population), and sent approximately 1.7 million exposure notifications: 4.2 per index case consenting to ...
Due to the novelty of SARS-CoV-2 virus, there has been limited evidence about its transmission, incubation period, associated pathophysiology and duration of infection [1,160]. There is also a paucity of data on the extent of protection, duration of immunity and chances of re-infection after...