He is being carried out through Dr. Sergio Gómez-Ochoa, Cardiovascular Foundation of Colombia, Floridablanca, Colombia, Professor Oscar H. Franco and Dr. Taulant Muka of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Switzerland, and colleagues, and will be published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
“Health care personnel (TS) are at the forefront of the reaction to the new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), exposing themselves to a higher threat of contracting the disease and exposing patients and their colleagues,” says the study co-author. Professor Oscar H. Franco. The authors aimed to systematically read about evidence on the prevalence, threat factors, clinical characteristics and diagnosis of coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection of severe acute respiratory syndrome in physical care staff.
Searches were carried out on the knowledge bases of Embase, Pubmed, LILACS, MedxRiv and Google Académico (until July 8, 2020). Pre-publication articles and peer reviews of any language that report the prevalence of COVID-19 in ST and evaluate factors Clinical characteristics and outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection were included in ST. Two reviewers independently decided the studies, extracted the knowledge and evaluated the quality of the evidence. Estimates were grouped into a random effects meta-analysis.
A total of 97 studies, which added 230,398 physical care personnel in 24 countries, met the inclusion criteria. According to PCR tests selected by fitness personnel and the presence of antibodies, the estimated prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection was 10% and 7%, respectively.
The test shows that 48% of those who tested positive for COVID-19 were nurses, followed by doctors (25%) ST (23%). Most of the medical staff who tested positive for COVID-19 worked on regular/non-surgical treatments/detection in non-COVID facilities (43%), followed by 24% in the operating room, 16% in the emergency room and 9% in the ICU, and 29% reported “other” locations.
”Loss of taste and smell (anosmia), fever and muscle pain were the only symptoms particularly related to the positivity of SARS-CoV-2 in ST’,’ explains the co-author, Dr. Taulant Muka. showed that of RT-PCR-positive TS, 40% showed no symptoms at the time of diagnosis. Finally, 1 in 20 physical care staff (5%) COVID-19 evolved severe clinical headaches and 1 in 200 (0. 5%) Died.
Dr. Muka says: “Health care personnel suffer a significant burden of COVID-19. A significant proportion of physical care staff is positive for COVID-19 while asymptomatic, leading to silent transmission of the disease. Symptoms related to COVID-19 in TS can be used as a detection indicator in environments with limited capabilities.