TY - JOUR
T1 - Nasal Foreign Body, an Unanticipated Complication of COVID-19 Care
T2 - A Case Report
AU - Wyman, Michael T.
AU - Symms, John
AU - Viscusi, Chad
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has changed the way we practice medicine. Standards of care are evolving in an effort to diagnose, manage, and treat the cause of this global pandemic, as well as to protect the health care workforce. These practices can have unexpected and potentially dangerous consequences, particularly for patient populations with confounding factors that put them at increased risk for complications and poor outcomes. Case Report: A 52-year-old previously healthy woman presented with 4 days of nasal pain and discharge after using a home collection kit in an attempt to obtain a nasopharyngeal viral sample for COVID-19 testing. Why Should an Emergency Physician Be Aware of This?: With treatments, policies, and procedures that are rapidly evolving and often deviating from established, evidence-based, usual care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency physicians must be cognizant of and monitor for poor outcomes and potential downstream complications, especially in underserved patient populations.
AB - Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has changed the way we practice medicine. Standards of care are evolving in an effort to diagnose, manage, and treat the cause of this global pandemic, as well as to protect the health care workforce. These practices can have unexpected and potentially dangerous consequences, particularly for patient populations with confounding factors that put them at increased risk for complications and poor outcomes. Case Report: A 52-year-old previously healthy woman presented with 4 days of nasal pain and discharge after using a home collection kit in an attempt to obtain a nasopharyngeal viral sample for COVID-19 testing. Why Should an Emergency Physician Be Aware of This?: With treatments, policies, and procedures that are rapidly evolving and often deviating from established, evidence-based, usual care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency physicians must be cognizant of and monitor for poor outcomes and potential downstream complications, especially in underserved patient populations.
KW - COVID-19
KW - nasal foreign body
KW - rhinoscopy
KW - unexpected complication
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jemermed.2020.12.034
DO - 10.1016/j.jemermed.2020.12.034
M3 - Article
C2 - 33583612
AN - SCOPUS:85100652018
SN - 0736-4679
VL - 60
SP - e141-e145
JO - Journal of Emergency Medicine
JF - Journal of Emergency Medicine
IS - 6
ER -