Management of post-acute COVID-19 in primary care (11 August 2020)

Summary

This article, published in the British Medical Journal, is intended for primary care clinicians and relates to the patient who has a delayed recovery from an episode of COVID-19 that was managed in the community or in a standard hospital ward.

Broadly, such patients can be divided into those who may have serious sequelae (such as thromboembolic complications) and those with a non-specific clinical picture, often dominated by fatigue and breathlessness.