Avtor/Urednik     Saje, Marko; Prebil, Karla; Kores-Plesničar, Blanka
Naslov     Time for lessons from the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 epidemic
Tip     članek
Leto izdaje     2020
Obseg     str. str.
ISSN     0213-6163 - The European journal of psychiatry
Jezik     eng
Abstrakt     A case of a middle-aged male, suffering from acute psychosis while in self-isolation due to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is presented. The patient required urgent hospital admission due to psychosis, which was only possible to COVID-19 unit of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the time. After transfer to psychiatric hospital, stool sample, taken as an additional preventive measure, was positive for the novel coronavirus. In addition, the patient experienced spontaneous virus reactivation few weeks later. This case report describes certain dilemmas, based on care for patients with mental illness as Europe stands on the brink of COVID-19 second wave.
Proste vsebinske oznake     COVID-19
psychosis
inpatient treatment
COVID-19
psihoza
stacionarno zdravljenje