Clinical consideration and management of coronavirus disease 2019
10.3760/cma.j.cn50113-20200220-00056
- VernacularTitle:2019新型冠状病毒感染肺炎的临床思考及处理
- Author:
Ke MA
1
;
Tao CHEN
;
Meifang HAN
;
Wei GUO
;
Qin NING
Author Information
1. 华中科技大学同济医学院附属同济医院感染科，武汉 430030
- Keywords:
2019 novel coronavirus;
COVID-19;
Diagnosis;
Treatment
- From:
Chinese Journal of Hepatology
2020;28(3):222-228
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in Wuhan city, Hubei province in December 2019 and the epidemic so rapidly happened within the whole country and abroad, raising serious problems and urgent concerns, such as: how to control most effectively human-to-human transmission? When does infection rate rise to its peak? What will eventually be the number of infected patients? How to make early diagnosis? What effective antiviral drugs are available? How to use the existing drugs to achieve the best effect? Can available drugs effectively improve the survival rate of critical patients? In view of the above questions, this article now puts forwards the corresponding suggestions and considerations from the perspective of clinical infectious diseases physician.
