Rev. DERC (Online) 2021; 27(1): 7-9
Rehabilitation of COVID-19 in Primary Care of the Brazilian Public Health System
Abstract
After the acute phase of COVID-19, a considerable number of patients usually present, in the short, medium and even in the long term, relevant physical and mental impairments with an evident negative influence on quality of life. In this context, it is urgent that the Unified Health System (SUS) structure itself to investigate the impact of COVID-19 in all patients, in order to detect situations that require structured rehabilitation, something that is only feasible on a large scale, such as it should occur at COVID-19, through strategies that emphasize home based rehabilitation, which has been shown to be safe and effective in relation to cardiovascular diseases for a long time. At COVID-19, prospective studies on rehabilitation have shown results that make the hypothesis of this same safety and efficacy perfectly plausible, something that strengthens the understanding that COVID-19 home rehabilitation is a feasible and absolutely priority alternative to be implemented in the System Brazilian Public Health.
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