"Paracetamol for febrile symptoms, anti-inflammatories if the clinical picture of the Covid patient begins to worsen, cortisone only in emergency to avoid attacking the patient's immune system. No antirheumatics, or antibiotics. Heparin for people who have difficulty moving" .
These are the therapeutic indications for home care of Covid patients contained in the draft of the Protocol developed by the working group of the Ministry of Health.
Bewilderment of family doctors
- it has been learned - who contest that they have not been consulted and do not agree with the therapeutic indications.
Fimmg: Covid hotel is not a hospital, only stable patients
"The Covid hotel is a home, not a hospital. A sheltered structure with respect to home for those patients who have no social or family support. But the rules of engagement must be clear: only people with a stabilized clinical picture can enter it. that do not require hospital wards even if at low intensity ".
This was stated by the deputy national secretary of the Federation of General Practitioners (Fimmg) Pier Luigi Bartoletti, clarifying that in Covid hotels only patients who have already been discharged must have access, even if still with pneumonia or positive for the virus, or people who do not have a severe clinical picture.
"The organization of these structures must include control shifts with doctor, nurse and socio-health assistant", added Bartoletti.
Covid high-risk hotel, only specialized teams
A Covid hotel is a place with a high risk of contagion, the teams of doctors and nurses used for patient checks cannot be improvised: they must at least be internists who know how to manage the dressing and undressing of biocontainment suits and other devices safety.
We cannot think of sending family doctors, if anything of a certain age, exposing them to the virus.
These structures can be a great advantage in easing the pressure on hospitals, but they must be organized well. "This was stated by the deputy national secretary of the Federation of family doctors (Fimmg) Pier Luigi Bartoletti. Just yesterday Minister Francesco Boccia asked the Commissioner Domenico Arcuri to take action to make Covid hotels available in all the provinces of the territory, with the aim of having one in each province.