Open AccessThe Effects of SARS COV 2 Infection –Does a Depression Pandemic Follow?
Author(s) -
Cosmina-Alina Moscu,
Mihaela Anghele,
Liliana Dragomir,
Sorina Munteanu,
Aurelian Anghele,
Aurel Nechita
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
broad research in artificial intelligence neuroscience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2067-3957
pISSN - 2068-0473
DOI - 10.18662/brain/13.1sup1/307
Subject(s) - medicine , depression (economics) , emergency department , pandemic , mental health , neurology , psychiatry , health care , medical emergency , covid-19 , emergency medicine , pediatrics , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , macroeconomics , economic growth
Viral infections can be a cause of CNS infection, causing mental and neurological symptoms. Even under normal conditions, good mental health is of paramount importance to the functioning of society. Healthcare workers are critical to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, but may have to leave work if their mental health is affected.
We present the favorable evolution of a patient, a 55 year-old woman, medical staff with a history of viral infection with SARS CoV-2 (August 2020), which is brought by a crew of the Ambulance service in the emergency department (ED) service (December 2020) for multi-drug ingestion for suicide. After treatment and investigations she is transferred to the “Elena Doamna” Psychiatric Hospital. After 4 days of hospitalization, he returns to the emergency department by transfer from the Psychiatric Hospital for underlying seizures, confusion syndrome. During her admission to the neurology service of the “Sf Ap. Andrei” Emergency Clinical Hospital, the patient benefited from numerous clinical and paraclinical investigations, which provided information about the patient's neuropsychiatric evolution.