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I free quick swabs, OR antigenic test, for the Coronavirus in Campania can also be done from family doctor, from continuity of care or of 118. Your GP will be able to perform the test in his office at a local AFT (Functional Territorial Aggregation), but also at home. To do the quick swab, you will need the reservation required and telephone triage. The “Protocol for swabs with rapid antigen testing by general practitioners, continuity of care and territorial health emergency 118” is ready between the medical unions and the Campania Region, which integrates the tasks of family doctors. Doctors have a fee of 18 euros if the swab is done in the office, or 12 euros if it is done outside. If your doctor does not adhere to the protocol, they will tell the patient, the colleague or the AFT where to go. The distribution of tampons and PPE will be made to the ASL Health Districts through the contact person identified for each ASL.
“It’s a big step – he explains Pina tommasielli, a benchmark for territorial medicine of the Crisis Unit for the Covid19 emergency in Campania – aimed at making the territorial network for detection and diagnosis of Covid more efficient. The rapid test will be an important tool for the differential diagnosis with the influenza virus. Free admission is an excellent opportunity for families in difficulty ”. The protocol will be active after its publication in the regional Burc, scheduled for the next few days.
Quick swab at the family doctor’s office or at home
General practitioners, in agreement with the AFT Coordinator and in organizational autonomy, can perform swabs in their own AFT offices or referral office or in the offices made available by the District (for example: rooms dedicated to the CA, during the hours of closing of the service, driving in or other). Alternative offices to the study should be equipped with a PC to connect to the regional platform for data entry. When necessary, the doctor also performs swabs at home, moving on his own.
Who can do the quick swab with the family doctor?
Quick swabs made by general practitioners are intended for:
- Asymptomatic close contacts of the CoViD-19 case identified by the GP or identified and reported by the Prevention Department, pending a quick swab;
- asymptomatic contacts near the end of the 10-day quarantine identified from a list sent by the Department of Prevention;
- suspected cases that the GP has to visit and that he decides to undergo a rapid test.
How to reserve the quick swab
Access is done before reservation me telephone triage and it is managed by general practitioners also through the study staff (administrative and / or nursing).
After making the swab, the doctor records performance performed and the result obtained on a regional platform, which is the condition to obtain economic recognition. Extraordinary environmental sanitation is not necessary after swabbing, but normal sanitation procedures for sanitary environments will suffice.
The test result via SMS.
The customer will receive a SMS with the link which you can access to download the report.
Continuity of Care Physician Quick Swab.
The Continuity of Care centers will be equipped with pads and PPE, to carry tampons during work shifts. CA physicians will be able to take samples both at the CA site and at home of the subject to suspected cases that the doctor has to visit and who decides to undergo a rapid test.
After taking the swab, the doctor records the performance performed and the result obtained in the regional platform. If the swab is done at home, the doctor agrees to register the activity on the regional platform as soon as possible and, in any case, on the same day it was done.
Doctor’s Quick Swab 118
All 118 stations will be equipped with antigenic pads to use only and exclusively in cases where it is necessary to transfer the patient in the emergency room to a hospital and it was necessary to verify the positivity or not of the subject – during the transport itself – in order to identify the place of transfer.
After taking the swab, the doctor records the performance performed and the result obtained on the regional platform.
What if the swab is positive or negative?
In case of positive result the doctor who performed the swab:
- communicates the result to the subject and informs him of the next path;
- provides and records the swab result on the regional platform for subsequent measurements;
- recommends fiduciary home isolation pending confirmation of molecular swab results, when necessary;
- provides the subject with hygienic-sanitary and behavioral information to follow during the isolation period;
- advises the subject to install the e-CoViD SINFONIA application for health surveillance on their mobile phone.
In failure case the doctor who performed the swab issues a certificate to the patient.
What are antigen tests?
Similarly to molecular buffers, I antigenic assays I am from direct type, that is, they directly evaluate the presence of the virus in the clinical sample, unlike the serological tests that are indirect, that is, they detect the presence of specific antibodies that indicate a previous or current infection. However, unlike molecular tests, antigenic tests detect the presence of the virus not through its nucleic acid but through its proteins (antigens).
Reliability of antigen tests
The test may be negative if the antigen concentration is below the detection limit of the test (e.g., if the sample was taken too early compared to the hypothetical exposure time) or if the sample was taken, transported or stored incorrectly. For this reason, the manufacturers of these kits emphasize that a negative test result does not exclude the possibility of a SARS-CoV-2 infection and the negativity of the test, in the event of a strong suspicion of CoViD-19, must be confirmed by tests . molecular.
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