GP: How is pneumonia treated over the phone? – Diseases

“The Covid picture is quite serious and causes me great anxiety, great dissatisfaction and anger,” Blagoevgrad general practitioner Dr. Dimitrinka Valchanova told BNR.

In the program “Before all” she described the situation as extremely seriousto. “At the same time, we seem to encounter resistance from our government – I’m talking about Blagoevgrad, to take much more serious action in time to limit the onslaught of Covid infection,” Dr. Valchanova said. In Blagoevgrad, nothing more was done to stop the spread of the infection, according to the GP.

“Each speech of the governors begins with the phrase, with the observation ‘There are beds’. But do you know how empty this line is? What do the beds mean? What are these beds? These are not beds in spas and hotels. They are hospital beds and a sick person sleeps in them ”, commented the GP. Whatever we do, wherever we put beds, until we stop the spread of the infection, there will be no beds, added Dr. Valchanova.

There are no beds, Dr. Dimitrinka Valchanova is categorical, who counted about 10-15 people with bilateral pneumonia lying at home and specified that these are data from the last week only.

“Pneumonia is already a complication. Bilateral pneumonia is already a serious complication. Not to mention that we are talking about people at risk, with concomitant cardiovascular, endocrine, kidney, liver diseases, which require this patient to be monitored, to be treated in a hospital “.

GPs go to incredible lengths to treat these patients, said Dr. Valchanova, who receives more than 70 calls a day from her patients.

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After the general practitioners interpret the rest of the class as less informed, let the associate professors and informed professors explain how to treat such pneumonia in diabetic and cardiovascular patients, the GP called.

It’s easy when the dynamics of a patient in a hospital are observed 24 hours a day, added Dimitrinka Valchanova. “Will any of the hospital colleagues, very knowledgeable and even more informed, go out and agree to treat such a patient only on the basis of subjective complaints, over the phone?” Tell me, how is liver dysfunction evaluated over the phone, how is kidney dysfunction evaluated? “