COVID 19-RELATED CLINICAL AND LABORATORY RESEARCHES – CURRENT ASPECTS

Authors

  • Denitsa Trancheva “Angel Kanchev” University of Ruse, Faculty of Public Health and Health Care, Republic of Bulgaria

Keywords:

laboratory medicine, clinical and laboratory research, Covid-19, pandemic

Abstract

According to the data of the WHO, there has been an increase of events over the past 20 years, associated with the morbidity rates of the nosological units of population, which require high-technology and precision in the clinical and laboratory testing. Laboratory medicine plays a vital role and becomes an integral part of the patient care process world-wide. Therefore, the determination of the appropriate diagnosis, the implementation of control and the administration of effective and safe medication therapy would not be obtained without analyzing the laboratory test data. In modern medicine, great importance is assigned to the laboratory researches, the results of which are objective indicators for assessing the state of the organism. This gives grounds to consider the clinical and laboratory diagnostics as an important and significant part of all medical and biological disciplines. In this regard, in 2020 a sudden-onset disaster has impacted the populations around the whole world – Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) – a virus infection that causes respiratory and systemic disease of subtype CoronaVirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In 2020-2022, the Covid-19 outbreak has created many challenges all over the world, putting the entire world's health system as well as the experts from all fields of medicine to test, causing unprecedented impacts not only to public health but also to social and economic activities. An outbreak of a global pandemic has been declared, spreading rapidly, increasing the number of patients with the Coronavirus seeking care, placing health services in many countries around the world under heavy strain. A range of measures has also been suggested which necessitated social exclusion, distance learning, limiting contacts, wearing protective equipment, using disinfectants, lockdown of the countries around the world, and all this aiming at stopping the transmission and prevent the spread of the pandemic as rapidly as possible. Thus, despite the initial hopes of mankind, unfortunately this did not happen. However, on the other hand, the global COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the allocation and use of a huge portion of human and financial resources in order to study this disease: many different therapeutic approaches have been studied; an improvement in its diagnostics has been achieved with highly specific, reliable and affordable clinical and laboratory tests.
Despite the efforts of all healthcare professionals, it is likely that the Covid-19 pandemic will further accompany the human journey for an indefinite period of time. Covid-19 is an example of a disease that requires a multidisciplinary approach in which laboratory medicine and clinical researches are soundly established and play a significant and important role.

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Published

2022-03-30

How to Cite

Trancheva, D. (2022). COVID 19-RELATED CLINICAL AND LABORATORY RESEARCHES – CURRENT ASPECTS. KNOWLEDGE - International Journal , 51(4), 515–519. Retrieved from https://ikm.mk/ojs/index.php/kij/article/view/5089

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