A Collaborative Community of Healthcare Workers Sharing Their COVID Experiences
If you are like me, one of the hardest thing about treating patients during the COVID 19 epidemic has been the unknown. Daily we are facing difficult questions that we have very little resources to find the answers to:
How and when do we test? Are the tests reliable?
How do we treat our sick patients?
How do we manage a practice and keep our healthy patients healthy.
Who is contagious and for how long? How do we know if someone is still contagious?
Will there be a vaccine? What is the latest research?
Why are some patients asymptomatic and others are deadly sick?
How do I get PPE and what do I do when I can not?
Are serology tests useful.. or just unreliable? How do I get tests? Which ones are approved and which ones are scams?
And so many more?
We are being barraged daily by social media and news posts about this disease, and have the CDC etc. to go to for some answers… but it seems like a moving target that we have more questions on daily. How do you care for patients when there is no standard of care?
That is why this website was created: As an opportunity for us on the “Frontlines” to share and interact with other physicians and caregivers so we can learn from one another and to collaborate together as we face this epidemic together.
Case Discussions: Please Join The Conversation
47 Year Old With Positive PCR Nasal Swab 4 weeks later with no residual symptoms: How would you manage this patient? – See Blog https://frontlinephysicians.com/blog/
Physicians Helping Physicians: Interacting With Other Caregivers
The Latest Relevant Articles
Could COVID 19 Re-activate EBV and that is why some infections are chronic?https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/interesting-read-could-epstein-barr-virus-explain-why-certain-covid-19-patients-manifest-certain-symptoms-while-others-are-asymptomatic
Vitamin D and COVID https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7231123/
Therapeutic management of patients with COVID-19: a systematic review https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7162768/
Does the BCG Vaccine Lower COVID incidence and mortality? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7217267/
Does MMR Vaccination / Revaccination lower serious COVID cases? https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/05/11/2030880/0/en/Madagascar-Zero-COVID-19-Deaths-After-MMR-Vaccine-Given-to-26-of-Population-in-2019-According-to-World-Organization.html
When do COVID Patients’ PCR Swabs Turn Positive? https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1495
Forum NavigationForum
Challenging CasesLast postWhat do you do with the chronic symptomatic patient?Anyone with patients with symptoms or positive testing weeks to months later?75 Topics · 148 PostsLast post: tamoxifen inducible cre recombinas … · 3 weeks ago · GuestContagious ConundrumsLast postWhat do you do with the asymptomatic patient who has maybe been exposed?When to test and when not to... and when to test again?64 Topics · 351 PostsLast post: What do you do with the asymptomat … · 3 weeks ago · GuestCOVID preventionLast postHow to prevent?Is there anything out there (Vitamin C, Hydroxychloroquine, Vitamin D, Elderberry, Etc.) that works?47 Topics · 141 PostsLast post: tadalafil 5mg tablets in india · 3 weeks ago · GuestCOVID TESTINGLast postHow Reliable Is the PCR Nasal Swab Test?Share Experiences on this testing.1 Topic · 40 PostsLast post: Anyone feel the false negative rat … · 9 months ago · GuestIgG and IgM TestingHow useful are these tests and how are you using them? Which ones are you using?54 Topics · 146 PostsLast post: Breaking News · 4 days ago · GuestOropharyngeal vs. Nasal SwabAnyone using the new Oropharyngeal swabs.... any issues?42 Topics · 68 PostsLast post: cialis online brand name · 3 weeks ago · GuestCOVID TreatmentLast postWhat is working in an outpatient setting?Share what is working and what is not...1 Topic · 40 PostsLast post: COVID outpatient treatment options … · 9 months ago · GuestWhat is working in the inpatient setting?Share what is working and what is not...1 Topic · 61 PostsLast post: Hospitalized patients · 6 months ago · GuestNursing Home CareLast postHow Do We Keep This Out of Nursing Homes?Share what is working and what is not...63 Topics · 176 PostsLast post: tadalafil 20 mg · 3 weeks ago · GuestPersonal Protective EquipmentLast postAny luck getting PPE easily?Any suggestions on where to find and buy PPE?1 Topic · 64 PostsLast post: Obtaining PPE · 5 months ago · GuestTele-health MedicineLast postTele-health SuggestionsShare what is working and what is not...248,990 Topics · 254,573 PostsLast post: If mirtazapine headaches integrity … · 37 seconds ago · GuestTele-health BillingAny recommendations or issues on billing for tele-health40 Topics · 121 PostsLast post: using cialis to last longer · 3 weeks ago · GuestStatistics249,379Topics255,929Posts766,895Views1,949Users48OnlineNewest Member: DWByiRGvr · Currently Online: 48 Guests
Forum
Your email address will not be used for advertising etc., but we need people to join and log in to make sure it is not a scam or bot. If you are not a licensed healthcare provider, please feel free to read the discussions, but would ask you to refrain from commenting.
In the Forum, please remember to be HIPAA compliant. Please use discretion in your discussions and remain professional. If you have any questions / comments or suggestions, please email us at covidcollaborative@gmail.com.