The Hospiten Group offers patients who have overcome the infection caused by SARS-COV-2, a complete check-up to locate, treat and monitor complications that may appear once the acute phase of this disease has passed.
A specialist in Internal Medicine will carry out a prior assessment that will allow us to know, based on your risk factors and other multiple aspects that will be reviewed, in what situation and risk level you are in to present sequelae or complications from COVID. The assessment will be carried out through questionnaires and scales that will estimate physical capacity, the psychological sphere and will allow us to discover persistent symptoms if there are any.
The check-up, which is carried out in one day, includes tests that will allow a complete report with risk stratification, treatment guidelines and follow-up. Various general tests will be carried out, such as measuring weight and height, checking BMI (body mass index), blood pressure, blood and urine tests and pulse oximetry. In addition to other more specific ones such as spirometry and serology, to determine lung function and the state of immunity against the SARS-COV-2 virus. The study covers other tests such as X-ray and CT scan of the chest, as well as others related to the heart such as the electrocardiogram and an echocardiogram.
It is very important to monitor the health of everyone who has overcome COVID-19, since even some asymptomatic patients have suffered subsequent complications. There have been alterations that were not initially present, and without a subsequent general check-up they could not have been detected in time.
Although the main problems usually appear more frequently in men with a history of heart disease, respiratory diseases or cardiovascular risk factors (hypertension, diabetes, overweight or obesity, high cholesterol, smoking...), the reality is that anyone who has gone through this disease can develop some type of ailment. Young people, without risk factors and who have suffered COVID-19 mildly or even asymptomatically, may also present these complications in the coming months. Although it is always advisable to see a specialist after passing COVID-19, it is even more so in case of having cardiovascular, pulmonary or hematological risk factors, or symptoms such as tiredness, fatigue, chest pain or palpitations.
The data extracted from the follow-up carried out for three months on patients with coronavirus and presented at the I National COVID-19 Congress, showed that 50% of those infected presented persistent symptoms or alterations in radiology tests. Recent publications where the follow-up time of these patients who contracted the infection is increasing, shows that more than 75% present one or more persistent symptoms and in some cases underlying complications. 39% of patients who did not have to be admitted at the beginning of the disease subsequently presented persistent effects of it.
Grupo Hospiten is an international healthcare network committed to providing a service of the highest quality, with more than 50 years of experience, which has twenty private medical-hospital centers in Spain, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Jamaica and Panama, and more than one hundred outpatient medical centers, owned and associated under the Clinic Assist brand. It is chaired by Dr. Pedro Luis Cobiella and annually serves more than 1,900,000 patients from all over the world, and has a staff of more than 5,000 people.
