Open AccessMedical rehabilitation for coronavirus infection: new challenges for physical and rehabilitation medicine in Russia
Author(s) -
А. А. Шмонин,
М Н Мальцева,
Е. В. Мельникова,
И Е Мишина,
Galina Ivanova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vestnik vosstanovitelʹnoj mediciny
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-2625
pISSN - 2078-1962
DOI - 10.38025/2078-1962-2020-97-3-14-21
Subject(s) - rehabilitation , telerehabilitation , pandemic , medicine , coronavirus , covid-19 , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , intensive care medicine , health care , physical therapy , telemedicine , pathology , economic growth , economics
Coronavirus infection causes lung damage and leads to the development of disabling conditions. The development of the Covid-19 pandemic leads to a one-stage increase in the number of patients who need assistance not only from infectious disease specialists and intensive care specialists, but also from rehabilitation specialists. However, patients suffering from other non-infectious conditions need rehabilitation despite the pandemic. Thus, rehabilitation specialists are faced with new tasks to organize rehabilitation in the epidemic for both patients with Covid-19 and patients at high risk of infection, but without coronavirus infection, to develop specific programs for pulmonary rehabilitation, data collection on the nature of disability, organization of outpatient programs and telerehabilitation.