Kansas Pain Management provides comprehensive interventional pain management services in the Overland Park, Leavenworth/Lansing, and Ottawa, Kansas areas. With nationally recognized and award winning Physicians our providers are leaders in the field of pain management.
Coronavirus disease is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is a novid (new version) Corona virus discovered in 2019, hence the name Covid 19. The disease was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province, and has since spread globally, resulting in the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic] Common symptoms include fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Other symptoms may include muscle pain, diarrhea, sore throat, loss of smell, and abdominal pain.
While the majority of cases result in mild symptoms, some progress to viral pneumonia and multi-organ failure. As of 5 April 2020, more than 1.23 million cases of have been reported in more than two hundred countries and territories,resulting in more than 67,200 deaths. More than 252,000 people have recovered.
As of April 5, 2020 Kansas has 701 cases and 21 confirmed deaths. 185 of these confirmed cases are in Johnson County with 7 confirmed deaths. Governor Laura Kelly imposed a stay at home order effective March 30 at 12:01 am.
At Kansas Pain Management, we implemented telemedicine on March 31, 2020 to ensure social distancing and help treat pain management patients. If a patient is unable to do a telemedicine due to internet constraints, phone consults are available.
If a patient is in severe intractable pain needing an injection, we will take care of them as long as they are free of any covid 19 symptoms and do not have a travel history. Also we continue to cover inpatient acute pain management consults at Overland Park Regional and Menorah hospitals.
During these difficult times, each of us has part to play in saving lives.
Do
Wash your hands regularly for 20 seconds, with soap and water or alcohol-based hand rub.
Cover your nose and mouth with a disposable tissue or flexed elbow when you cough or sneeze
Avoid close contact (1 meter or 3 feet) with people who are unwell.
Stay home and self-isolate from others in the household if you feel unwell.
Wear a face cover or mask when heading out for grocery/doctor’s visits or even at home if you are sick.
Don’t
Touch your eyes, nose, or mouth if your hands are not clean
Do trips outside the home/travel unless absolutely necessary for groceries/drug stores.
This is an extremely contagious virus and takes a downhill course in patients with pre-existing disease. After an initial cough and fever, many patients quickly progress to respiratory failure. Fatalities are high in elderly, immunocompromised patients, and those with pre-existing pulmonary disease. It has however caused mortality in all ages including young adults.
In the few months since this virus emerged, we’ve learnt an immense amount about it and yes a lo is largely unknown. Scientists have decoded it’s genetics and who it’s more likely to kill. Scientists have starting working on vaccines that could immunize humans to it.
This is an extremely contagious virus and takes a downhill course in patients with pre-existing disease. After an initial cough and fever, many patients quickly progress to respiratory failure. Fatalities are high in elderly, immunocompromised patients, and those with pre-existing pulmonary disease. It has however caused mortality in all ages including young adults.
In the few months since this virus emerged, we’ve learnt an immense amount about it and yes a lo is largely unknown. Scientists have decoded it’s genetics and who it’s more likely to kill. Scientists have starting working on vaccines that could immunize humans to it.
SARS-CoV-2 is very contagious, and a huge portion of the global population is vulnerable
One thing we do know is that this coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, is very contagious. Just look at the headlines: Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, has now infected nearly a million people around the globe.
Scientists quantify the contagiousness of a disease with a figure called R0 (pronounced R-nought.) “The figure refers to how many other people one sick person is likely to infect on average in a group that’s susceptible to the disease (meaning they don’t already have immunity from a vaccine or from fighting off the disease before),” Vox’s Julia Belluz explains. An R0 of 2, for example, means each infected person is expected to spread the virus to two others, on average. Covid-19 is currently believed to have an R0 between 2 and 2.5.
Javier Zarracina and Christina Animashaun/Vox
That makes it more contagious than the seasonal flu. With the flu, there are people in the population who have some level of immunity to it — either because of a vaccine or because they have been exposed to that strain of flu in the past.
