Campania coronavirus, 1500 in non-serious home quarantine. The Crisis Unit: Don’t rush to the hospital

Covid19 cases increase in Campania with few symptoms. There are about 1,500 non-serious positives in home quarantine. From the Crisis Unit for the emergency of the Coronavirus in Campania comes an appeal to citizens “not to rush to the hospital to request hospitalization if the symptoms are not serious.” Towards the reactivation and strengthening of the telemedicine system forhome care of so-called symptomatic pauci patients – Non-serious cases, which do not have respiratory problems or blood saturation that require hospitalization, already experienced during the confinement phase and then, in some ASL, reduced when the number of infections decreased, between June and July. “Now – explain Pina tommasielli, responsible for territorial medicine of the Crisis Unit – we are registering an increase in cases, mostly symptomatic pauci, that do not require hospitalization, but still rush to the hospital to request it. This is not OK. There is a home health care protocol for the coronavirus. Patients with few symptoms should stay at home, otherwise we will not have space in hospitals to hospitalize the most serious cases ”.

The home health care protocol

What does the home care protocol provide for cases with low symptoms activated during confinement? “In non-serious cases of Covid19, with few symptoms – explains Tommasielli – we have approved a precise regional protocol. The patient with symptoms of Coronavirus should not go to the hospital at all, but should contact his family doctor, contacting him by phone. The physician will perform the telephone triage and activate the ASL request for the swab at home. The Usca camper will arrive and a swab will be done directly at home. In the case of symptomatic paucis, which do not require hospitalization, the patient can be followed directly to his home, where he will remain in quarantine. ASL will be contacted by phone every day to monitor health status. The Usca will come home periodically for the oximeter or EKG checks. Everything is tracked on an online platform. If necessary, the GP calls the specialist doctor who will come to your house to perform the tests. While the ASL will always send home antiviral drugs for treatment. “This system, later codified in the regional protocol, during the final phase of the confinement was activated by some ASLs, such as Napoli 1, 2 and 3 and the ASL of Caserta.