Einheitliche Basisversorgung von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Long COVID: Stellungnahme einer multidisziplinären Arbeitsgruppe der DGKJ-Konvent-Gesellschaften (Stand: Februar 2022)
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Contributors
- German Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
- Alliance for Child and Youth Rehabilitation
- Pediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology
- German Society for Otorhinolaryngology
- Alliance for Child and Adolescent Health e. V.
- Society for Neuropediatrics
- German Society for Social Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
- German Society for Pediatric Rehabilitation and Prevention
- Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kinderendokrinologie und -diabetologie
- German Sleep Society
- Association of Pediatrician and Adolescent physicians
- German Society for Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Defects
- German Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases
- Society for Pediatric Pneumology
- German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy
Abstract
This current consensus paper for long COVID complements the existing AWMF S1 guidelines for long COVID with a detailed overview on the various clinical aspects of long COVID in children and adolescents. Members of 19 different pediatric societies of the DGKJ convent and collaborating societies together provide expert-based recommendations for the clinical management of long COVID based on the currently available but limited academic evidence for long COVID in children and adolescents. It contains screening questions for long COVID and suggestions for a structured, standardized pediatric medical history and diagnostic evaluation for patients with suspected long COVID. A time and resource-saving questionnaire, which takes the clinical complexity of long COVID into account, is offered via the DGKJ and DGPI websites as well as additional questionnaires suggested for an advanced screening of specific neurocognitive and/or psychiatric symptoms including post-exertional malaise (PEM) and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). According to the individual medical history as well as clinical signs and symptoms a step by step diagnostic procedure and a multidisciplinary therapeutic approach are recommended.
Translated title of the contribution | Recommendation for standardized medical care for children and adolescents with long COVID Statement of a multidisciplinary pediatric expert group of the DGKJ convent societies (status: February 2022) |
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Details
Original language | German |
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Pages (from-to) | 539-547 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde |
Volume | 170 |
Issue number | 6 |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2022 |
Peer-reviewed | No |
External IDs
ORCID | /0000-0001-9713-0183/work/146645402 |
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Keywords
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Keywords
- Children, Consensus, Germany, Long COVID, SARS-CoV-2