Covid19 management
Channel: Nurse Ray 📚📚
Date: 2020-06-10

Investigation 
-History taking 
Ask if client visited a country with increased cases of covid19 
Ask about signs and symptoms 
-physical examination 
Reveals breath sounds and pulmonary oedma
-chest x Ray
Reveals fine ground glass 
-CT Scan
Reveals  consolidation and crazy paving pattern
-Ultrasound 
Pleural line thickening, air bronchograms,B lines
Standard diagnosis 
collect nasal /oral swab for RT-PCR
TREATMENT 
Antipyretic
*Paracetamol 
Antiviral 
*Remdesivir
Mode of action : inhibit the enzyme RNA-D,RNA POLy from making new copies of +ssrna
Antimalarial drug
*hydroxychloroquine
To prevent the corona virus from entry into the pneumocyte type 2 cell cytoplasm 
Interleukin blockers 
Tocilizumab
It blockers the macrophage from releasing interleukin 6 hence reducing fever.
Other drugs given are antibiotics, corticosteroids. .

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