Michigan Medicine Opens COVID-19 Long Distance Clinic

Ann Arbor, Michigan-COVID-19 Post-discharge care for “long-haul carriers” is currently provided by Michigan Medicine in a combination of virtual and face-to-face clinics.

Michigan Medicine has established a clinic to provide post-discharge care to both adult and pediatric patients experiencing long-term symptoms and complications after COVID.

Officially named Interdisciplinary Post COVID-19 ClinicAdult clinics at Domino’s Farms, 4000 Ave Maria Dr. Lobby C, Suite 1300 operate under a mixed face-to-face and virtual care model. Face-to-face bookings will be made on Friday afternoon.

Clinic patients must be 18 years of age or older and have a medical history of COVID-19 confirmed in the lab referred by the primary care provider or inpatient provider at discharge. Eligible patients also have coexisting diabetes, prediabetes, obesity, thyroid glands with persistent symptoms after COVID-19, including fatigue, shortness of breath, joint and muscle pain, weakness, dizziness, chest pain and memory problems. Or you have to get a diagnosis of the adrenal glands.

The clinic combines the work of two interdisciplinary teams to study long-term disease outcomes in vulnerable adult and pediatric populations.

“There is an urgent need to better understand the long-term complications of COVID-19 and provide professional care to high-risk patient groups,” said Rodica Popbus, a Michigan medical endocrinologist and director of an adult clinic. Dr. Lee said.

Patients admitted with COVID-19 have experienced a wide range of long-term multi-organ problems, including lung, cardiovascular, renal, metabolic, mood, and neurological complications, with more than 1,500 adult patients in Michigan. He is hospitalized with severe COVID-19 in medicine. ..

Pop-Busui said the goal of Michigan medicine is to provide medical services to all patients admitted with COVID-19, but because of the high risk, it is initially targeted at diabetic or obese patients. ..

The patient’s first clinic visit includes consultation with endocrinology, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, and neuropsychology. Michigan Medicine guides individual referrals to selective virtual disciplines based on how each patient presents in the clinic, with additional specific criteria in the lab and other tests.

All consenting patients are invited to participate in clinical care studies. There, labs and images will be provided in the field and a comprehensive set of tests and surveys will be conducted. The patient is then prescribed a treatment plan and will be followed up at 3 and 6 months.

Michigan Medicine also offers a pediatric post-COVID syndrome clinic at CS Mott Children’s Hospital to support children, adolescents, and teens suffering from the long-term effects of COVID-19 or pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome. I will.

Eligible clinic patients have a lab-identified history of COVID-19, are referred by a primary care provider, and are 21 years old with symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath, joint pain, chest pain, and cough. Must be less than. More than 2 months after COVID-19. Children should also have no other exposure or explanation for new or worsening symptoms.

Like adult clinics, pediatric clinics offer virtual and direct visits and the option to participate in research studies on the long-term effects of COVID-19 in children.

The patient’s first visit is either direct or virtual to assess symptoms, the need for coordinated care, and the need for additional tests. A specialist reviews the case and develops an evaluation and treatment plan.

Dr. Carrie Lumen, Mott’s Pediatric Pulmonologist, who heads Mott’s Post-COVID Clinic, said: “Most of these early infections were mild and did not require hospitalization or even outpatient treatment. Our goal is to better understand this phenomenon in adolescents and to help patients deal with specific symptoms. To ensure that you can see a group of professionals. “

Schedule of Adult Interdisciplinary Post COVID-19 Clinic And that Pediatric Post-COVID Syndrome Clinic You can create it online.

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