DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT COVID-19 INTEGRATED CHN & WESTERN MED

This handbook mainly introduces the diagnosis and treatment methods of COVID-19 in traditional Chinese and Western medicine. In particular, principles for clinical treatments, therapeutic methods and prognostic rehabilitation interventions for the four types of clinical manifestations are elaborated. A chapter detailing guidance for healthy individuals on scientific prevention measures is also included, making this book suitable for not only frontline COVID-19 personnel and TCM enthusiasts, but also the general public.

Contents:

• General Introduction:
  • An Overview
  • Epidemiological Characteristics
  • Clinical Characteristics
• Clinical Diagnosis:
  • Diagnostic Criteria and Clinical Classification
  • Nucleic Acid Testing
  • Serological Testing
  • Re-positive Patients, Persistent Positive Patients, Asymptomatic Patients, and Reinfected Patients
• Western Medicine Treatments:
  • Principles of Treatment
  • Western Medicine Treatment
• TCM Treatment:
  • An Overview
  • TCM Treatment
• Complications, Sequelae, and Long-Term Symptoms:
  • Mechanism of Injury
  • Relevant Organ and System Injury
  • Long-Term Symptoms
  • Understanding and Effect of TCM on the Complications, Sequelae, and Long-Term COVID
• The Rehabilitation Treatment of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine:
  • An Overview
  • Management Objectives and Principles
  • Rehabilitation Diagnosis and Treatment Procedures and Evaluation
  • Rehabilitation Treatment
• Prevention:
  • Lifestyle
  • Comprehensive Prevention of TCM
  • The Prevention of Chinese Medicinals
  • Vaccine Development
• Diagnosis and Treatment Standards of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in a Makeshift Hospital:
  • An Overview of Makeshift Hospital
  • Management Principles
  • Standards for Admission and Pre-examination and Triage of Patients
  • Treatment Measures
  • Standards and Procedures for Transfer and Discharge
  • Introduction of TCM Model of Jiangxia Makeshift Hospital
• Introduction to Clinical Drugs Research:
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • Chemicals
• International Progress:
  • An Overview of the International Popularity
  • International Assistance
  • Research on SARS-CoV-2 Characteristics
  • Drugs, Vaccines, and Other Therapies
  • The Clinical Treatment of COVID-19
  • Related Clinical Studies of COVID-19
  • Clinical Drug Research
• Appendices:
• Diagnosis and Treatment Protocol for COVID-19 Patients
• COVID-19 TCM Syndrome Research and Analysis
• The Roles of TCM in the Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19
• Hot Issues Related to COVID-19 TCM Treatment (Questions & Answers) (Prof. Zhang Boli)
• Clinical Drug Research

Readership: All personnel involved in the COVID-19 response may like an overview of the current diagnosis and treatment methods against the disease. This book will also be of interest to teachers, students, researchers, and practitioners of TCM, to understand how their field is contributing to the fight against the coronavirus. As the text includes guidance for healthy individuals on scientific prevention measures, it is also suitable for members of the public.

Key Features:

• The content of the book is scientific and practical, with narration of accurate and scientific data, inclusive of optimal treatment plans utilized at the front line, which have high clinical guidance value