Managing Long COVID Syndrome

Over ten percent of people infected with the COVID virus will suffer  with long COVID syndrome. Up until now, more than one million people  have been affected with this syndrome in the United Kingdom alone, and  the incidence worldwide is estimated to be more than 35 million people,  although this may be the tip of the iceberg. The World Health  Organization has highlighted a need for the “three Rs” — Recognition,  Research and Rehabilitation.

Long COVID syndrome can be  frustrating and disabling, even many months or years after the  infection; sufferers complain of fatigue, pain, post-exertional malaise,  cognitive dysfunction and many other systemic symptoms. It can be  challenging for healthcare professionals to recognise the disease and  for patients who are suffering from the condition it can have a wide and  far-reaching impact on their lives and day-to-day activities. Being a  relatively new condition, many healthcare professionals, now more than  ever, need to have the requisite knowledge to recognise and manage this  severely debilitating disease.

This book will be useful to all  frontline healthcare professionals to help diagnose, manage and direct  patients to the available resources. General practitioners,  physiotherapists, pain therapists, nurses, surgeons, physicians, junior  doctors, psychologists, medical students and other clinicians will be  able to update their knowledge on long COVID syndrome with this easy to  read book. Patients will also find the book useful to understand the  basis of the disease and how they can seek help.

This  comprehensive treatise covers a wide variety of topics on long COVID  syndrome including the aetiopathogenesis, recognition, systemic  involvement, investigations, guidelines on management, available  resources, systemic management and pain/fatigue management. This book  will be handy for candidates preparing for various examinations  conducted by the Royal College of General Practitioners, UK (MRCGP),  Royal College of Anaesthetists, UK (FRCA), Faculty of Pain Medicine, UK  (FFPMRCA), College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland (FCAI), European  Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (EDAIC), Australian and  New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FANZCA), World Institute of Pain  (FIPP/CIPS), National Board of Examinations of India (Dip NB), and the  American and Canadian board examinations, as well as other examinations  conducted by medical boards across the globe.