COVID 19 - CT SEVERITY SCORE- SIMPLIFIED
Explained in simple words to help radiologists in reporting covid cases and to help ICU staff to understant the severity of case from CT report
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COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a strain of coronavirus.
• The first cases were seen in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 before spreading globally, with more than 20 million cases now confirmed.
• Currently CT chest is not used to diagnose COVID-19, but maybe helpful in triage and assessing for complications.
• The definitive test for SARS-CoV-2 is the real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test. It is believed to be highly specific, but with sensitivity reported as low as 60-70%
• Thus, false negatives are a real clinical problem, and several negative tests might be required in a single case to be confident about excluding the disease.