What if the worst consequences of COVID-19 concerned non-COVID patients?

Radjiv Goulabchand; Pierre-Géraud Claret; Benoit Lattuca

doi:10.1016/j.jiph.2020.06.014

Journal of Infection and Public Health (Sep 2020)

What if the worst consequences of COVID-19 concerned non-COVID patients?

Radjiv Goulabchand,
Pierre-Géraud Claret,
Benoit Lattuca

Affiliations

Radjiv Goulabchand: Internal Medicine Department, Nîmes University Hospital, Montpellier University, Nîmes, France; Corresponding author at: Internal Medicine department, Nîmes University Hospital, Place du Pr Debre, 30 029 Nîmes cedex, France.
Pierre-Géraud Claret: Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Emergency, Nîmes University Hospital, Montpellier University, Nîmes, France
Benoit Lattuca: Cardiology Department, Nîmes University Hospital, Montpellier University, Nîmes, France

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2020.06.014
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 9
pp. 1237 – 1239

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We highlight in this short article the side-effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the management of non-COVID patients, with potential detrimental and irreversible complications. We thus propose adjusted strategies to deal with both COVID and non−COVID patients.

Published in Journal of Infection and Public Health

ISSN: 1876-0341 (Print); 1876-035X (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases; Medicine: Public aspects of medicine
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-infection-and-public-health

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