Long COVID: Current research on risk factors, pathophysiology, and emerging treatments
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- Why Long COVID is a large and growing concern as new insights emerge at great speed
- Understand the proposed mechanisms driving Long COVID, including the two main mechanisms of persistent infection and the role of toxic fibrin induced vascular damage
- How to clinically assess Long COVID in patients
- Role of antivirals in reducing the duration, severity and potentially preventing the impact of Long COVID
- Three hierarchical drivers of preventing the impact of Long COVID, how can this messaging help your patient
- What should be your tool kit of prevention, when explaining Long COVID to your patients, especially the vulnerable ones
- Risk of long lasting viraemia in the body causing future chronic conditions
- Use of CoRiCal, a COVID calculator (including Long COVID); beneficial as a tool in your practice
Host: Dr David Lim | Total Time: 54 mins
Experts: Prof Brendan Crabb, Infectious Disease Researcher
A/Prof John Litt AM, Public Health Physician
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