Rehabilitación kinésica para pacientes con alta hospitalaria por COVID-19

Abstract

By March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a global pandemic: COVID-19. This is known as an infectious respiratory disease, which occurs mainly with symptoms and signs of dry cough, fever, tiredness and other more serious ones such as respiratory distress. This disease can cause long-term dysfunctions of different systems. Despite the fact that most of the evidence reported so far in rehabilitation and in the tools used to evaluate patients, the vast majority have been focused on the in-hospital environment, some authors, experts and international societies have shared recommendations for the work, with patients once discharged, at home, with a community-based outlook and with remote monitoring by professionals. Based on the evidence provided and experts recommendations, a structure for evaluating the patient and an orientation in its considerations for the treatment and monitoring of patients is proposed.