96085

Low-Cost Covid-19 Screening Protocol

Article

Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Tags

Infectious diseases

Abstract

Background: COVID19 still not under human medical control, still killing people every were, virus lethality is unpredictable, time needed till having an effective drug or vaccine is still unclear, and humanity economic resources are being exhausted. Low-cost COVID-19 screening program is of great importance all over the world due to early general inventory of COVID-19 +ve patients before the onset of pulmonary symptoms in highly susceptible population (city, village, hospital clinics…etc). Hypothesis: Blood picture changes in COVID-19 +ve patients as lymphocytopenia , increased D-dimer>1000 µg/L(>1µg/ml)  and mild elevation of serum Ferritin [early (survivors >400µg/L)and late (non-survivors >1000 µg/L)] occur early prior to pulmonary symptoms, and portable chest X ray hence can be used as reliable indicator for early COVID-19 diagnosis and this may save the use of CT chest as well as swab-PCR.
Conclusion: We can screen out COVID 19 endemic zones and run the outpatient clinics in hospitals with the least coast during the period of lack of effective drug or vaccine against COVID 19 epidemic.

DOI

10.21608/aeji.2020.30004.1081

Keywords

Low-cost, COVID-19, Screening, Protocol

Authors

First Name

mohamed

Last Name

Ghanem

MiddleName

A

Affiliation

Department of Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive care, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt

Email

mohamed.abdel_latif@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

0000/0002-2177-2136

Volume

10

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

16766

Issue Date

2020-09-01

Receive Date

2020-05-11

Publish Date

2020-09-01

Page Start

327

Page End

331

Print ISSN

2090-7613

Online ISSN

2090-7184

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https://aeji.journals.ekb.eg/article_96085.html

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https://aeji.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=96085

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19

Type

Opinions, Commentaries

Type Code

623

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases

Publication Link

https://aeji.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Low-Cost Covid-19 Screening Protocol

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Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023