scholarly journals Coronavirus-A Global Emergency

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-142
Author(s):  
Md Abdul Ahad

Introduction:Coronavirus is a highly infectious contagious virus producing pandemic throughout the world with highmorbidity and mortality. Discussion: Right now, there is no vaccine to prevent human coronavirus infections. But you mayable to reduce your risk of getting or spreading an infection by-washing hands often with soap and water for at least 20seconds, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 70% alcohol if soap and water are not available. Avoidingtouching your face, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands, use of face mask, avoiding close contact with people who aresick, there is no specific treatment for coronavirus. Conclusion:Treatment aims to relieve the symptoms. Most people willget better on their own. However, you can relieve your symptoms by-taking over-the-counter medicines for pain, fever, andcough. Using a room humidifier or taking a hot shower to help ease a sore throat and cough. Getting plenty of nutritiousdiet, drinking fluids and taking rest. Medicine Today 2020 Vol.32(2): 138-142

Mediscope ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-125
Author(s):  
Md Abdul Ahad

Coronavirus is a highly infectious contagious virus producing pandemic throughout the world with high morbidity and mortality. Right now, there is no vaccine to prevent human coronavirus infections. But you mayable to reduce your risk of getting or spreading an infection by-washing hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds,using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 70% alcohol if soap and water are not available, avoiding touching your face, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands,use of face mask, avoiding close contact with people who are sick.There is no specific treatment for coronavirus. Treatment aims to relieve the symptoms. Most people will get better on their own. However, you can relieve your symptoms by-taking over-the-counter medicines for pain, fever, and cough&plenty of nutritious diet, drinking fluids and taking rest. Mediscope Vol. 7, No. 2: July 2020, Page 117-125


Author(s):  
Nikolai Gennadevich Durnov ◽  
Alexander Vladimirovich Grigoriev ◽  
Maria Nikolaevna Сhernikova ◽  
Maria Sergeevna Halimzyanova ◽  
Marina Mikhailovna Krekova ◽  
...  

The article describes the features and ways of ensuring the availability of vital pharmaceuticals to pharmacy organizations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was noted that during the pandemic, pharmacists from all over the world made maximum efforts to ensure an uninterrupted and safe supply of medicines to patients, despite the unprecedented situation. The social distancing policy has been widely implemented to maintain the personal safety of patients and reduce the number of personal visits. Also, vital strategies and practices have been implemented in some foreign countries, including the supply of conventional medicines at state-subsidized prices, the maximum monthly supply of some prescription drugs has been provided and limits on the purchase of over-the-counter medicines have been set, home delivery of medicines to people at risk and people in isolation has been organized. The experience of pharmaceutical organizations during the pandemic has shown that it is necessary to monitor the predicted shortage of medicines, especially in regional pharmacies, as well as to control the workload in pharmacies and timely control of online orders of medicines to eliminate frustration and anxiety in patients who need life-saving medicines.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Safa Teboulbi ◽  
Seifeddine Messaoud ◽  
Mohamed Ali Hajjaji ◽  
Abdellatif Mtibaa

Since the infectious coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first reported in Wuhan, it has become a public health problem in China and even around the world. This pandemic is having devastating effects on societies and economies around the world. The increase in the number of COVID-19 tests gives more information about the epidemic spread, which may lead to the possibility of surrounding it to prevent further infections. However, wearing a face mask that prevents the transmission of droplets in the air and maintaining an appropriate physical distance between people, and reducing close contact with each other can still be beneficial in combating this pandemic. Therefore, this research paper focuses on implementing a Face Mask and Social Distancing Detection model as an embedded vision system. The pretrained models such as the MobileNet, ResNet Classifier, and VGG are used in our context. People violating social distancing or not wearing masks were detected. After implementing and deploying the models, the selected one achieved a confidence score of 100%. This paper also provides a comparative study of different face detection and face mask classification models. The system performance is evaluated in terms of precision, recall, F1-score, support, sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy that demonstrate the practical applicability. The system performs with F1-score of 99%, sensitivity of 99%, specificity of 99%, and an accuracy of 100%. Hence, this solution tracks the people with or without masks in a real-time scenario and ensures social distancing by generating an alarm if there is a violation in the scene or in public places. This can be used with the existing embedded camera infrastructure to enable these analytics which can be applied to various verticals, as well as in an office building or at airport terminals/gates.


Computing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faris A. Almalki ◽  
Abdullah A. Alotaibi ◽  
Marios C. Angelides

AbstractWhen COVID-19 was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020, national governments and health authorities across the world begun considering different preventive measures to fight against the coronavirus outbreak. Researchers and tech companies worldwide have been striving to utilize advanced technologies to aid in the fight against the Covid-19 outbreak. This paper aims to couple multifunction drone with AI to deliver wireless services that will help the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. The proposed drone-eye-system with its thermal imaging cameras and an AI framework utilizes a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with its Modified Artificial Neural Network (MANN) for face mask detection of people wearing masks in public. The system can perform basic diagnostic functions such as elevated body temperatures for helping minimize the risk of spreading the infection through close contact. The AI framework evolve an optimized elevation angle $$\uptheta $$ θ and altitude $${\mathrm{h}}_{\mathrm{t}}$$ h t to enhance wireless connectivity between a drone and a ground station, which in turn leads to better throughput and power consumption. The proposed framework has been developed using the MATLAB toolbox and shows promising results with an accuracy of face mask detection of 82.63%, with an F1-score of 0.98, and an enhanced by 10% link budget parameters.


Author(s):  
Tatiani De Azevedo Lobo ◽  
Marli M. Moraes Da Costa

Resumo: O presente ensaio busca apresentar e fomentar algumas questões pertinentes ao debate contemporâneo sobre a pobreza, demonstrando a importância do tema no cenário mundial. Para tanto, inicialmente discorre-se sobre a construção histórico-social da pobreza e suas características contemporâneas. Com efeito, aponta-se a limitação dos fatores tradicionalmente apresentados como causadores da pobreza, como cultura, genética, geografia etc. Além disso, apresentam-se as formas atuais de monitorar o fenômeno, como o coeficiente de Gini e o IDH. Posteriormente, aborda-se a distribuição mundial da pobreza. Nesse ponto, colaciona-se que a pobreza é um problema mundial. No entanto, é perceptível que o Sul ainda concentra maior número de indivíduos pobres do que o Norte. Na esteira dos últimos dados da pesquisa realizada pelas Nações Unidas, houve uma nítida ascensão do Sul, especialmente nos indicadores sociais ligados à educação. A seguir, trata-se do capital social e da Teoria das Capacidades, apresentando-se novas abordagens da pobreza. Assim, o capital social trata de uma ideia utilizada para verificar a rede de relacionamento dos indivíduos. Já a Teoria das Capacidades está ligada com a ideia de oportunidade da liberdade. Por fim, estuda-se as políticas públicas, bem como seu aspecto fragmentário. Conclui-se, assim, sobre a necessidade de implementação de políticas públicas elaboradas sob a égide de novos paradigmas, a fim de possibilitar o tratamento específico do fenômeno da pobreza, conforme as peculiaridades de cada local. Para tanto foi utilizado neste trabalho o método de abordagem hipotético-dedutivo, o método de procedimento monográfico e a técnica de pesquisa, operacionalizados por meio do emprego de vasta pesquisa bibliográfica. Abstract: This essay seeks to provide and foster some relevant to the contemporary debate on poverty issues, demonstrating the importance of the issue on the world stage. For this purpose, initially spoke about the historical and social construction of poverty and its contemporary features. Indeed, he pointed out the limitation of the factors traditionally presented as the cause of poverty, as a culture, genetics, geography, etc. Furthermore, we presented the current ways of monitoring the phenomenon, such as the Gini coefficient and the HDI. Subsequently addressed the global distribution of poverty. At this point, if collated that poverty is a worldwide problem. However, it is apparent that the South still more concentrated than the poor North individuals. In the wake of recent data from research conducted by the United Nations, there was a sharp rise in the South, especially in social indicators related to education. Next, we treated the capital and the Theory of Capabilities, presenting new approaches to poverty. Thus, social capital is an idea used to verify the relationship network of individuals. Already Capabilities Theory is linked with the idea of freedom of opportunity. Finally, we studied public policy, as well as its fragmentary appearance. Thus, it is concluded on the need to implement public policies prepared under the aegis of new paradigms to enable specific treatment of the phenomenon of poverty, according to the peculiarities of each site. For that was used in this work the method of hypothetical-deductive approach, the method of procedure and the monographic research technique, operationalized through the use of extensive academic research.


Author(s):  
Hugh Series

This chapter reviews the legal regulation of treatment of depression as it exists in England and Wales, where medicinal products are regulated largely by the Medicines Act 1988 and the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The Medicines Act divides medicinal products into pharmacy only medicines, which can only be purchased under the supervision of a pharmacist, over-the-counter medicines, and prescription only medicines. The Misuse of Drugs Act is concerned with controlled drugs. These are divided into three classes according to their perceived degree of harmfulness. This chapter considers treatment with valid consent and two pieces of legislation that govern people who are sufficiently ill and need to be admitted to hospital: the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA). It also discusses treatment of mentally incapacitated patients and the issue of liberty regarding the admission of a compliant but incapacitated patient to hospital. Finally, it looks at three types of non-medical prescribing in England, issued by independent prescribers, supplementary prescribers, and community practitioners.


2012 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Calamusa ◽  
Alessandra Di Marzio ◽  
Renza Cristofani ◽  
Paola Arrighetti ◽  
Vincenzo Santaniello ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 46 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Misel Trajanovska ◽  
Elizabeth Manias ◽  
Noel Cranswick ◽  
Linda Johnston

Author(s):  
Yogesh Chand Yadav ◽  
Ramakant Yadav ◽  
Sushant Kumar

The SARS-CoV-2 virus was first detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and was known to produce acute severe respiratory illness in humans which rapidly spread almost throughout the world within a few months. This human coronavirus has seven strains and they commonly produce illness in the nervous system, respiratory system and hepato- intestinal systems. This present review is an attempt to illustrate recent reports pertaining to the management of SARS-CoV-2. Further, it also highlights the diagnosis and clinical management of COVID-19. Various search engines like Scopus, Pubmed and WHO databases were accessed and literature on current advances about COVID-19 including structural features, replication, possible pathogenic, symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, methods of prevention and possible therapeutic agents used for treatment of patients was reviewed. Current studies indicate that COVID-19 is very infectious with droplet transmission potential. The key modalities to prevent the infection is by keeping social distancing, respiratory/hand hygiene, detection of infection and subsequent quarantine of the infected persons. Presently, either no vaccine for prevention or specific treatments available, however, COVID-19 patients may be managed by using some repositioned drugs and symptomatic treatment.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Islam

Antioxidants of various origins, by these days are one of the known health promotion tools in the world. These are also vastly used as over-the-counter medications. Having a protective capacity, antioxidants have been procured much attention in various fields; these include- dietary consumption, medicinal and cosmetic preparations, food and drinks preparation and preservation, and so on. Antioxidants are more concerned with the medical and pharmaceutical fields, where therapeutic applications are the prime apprehension. Our body has a number of antioxidants called physiological antioxidant systems. Generally, antioxidants are the reducing agents. A failure of balance between the production of oxidative substances and internal or physiological antioxidant molecules asks us to intake external or non-physiological antioxidants. How safe the non-physiological antioxidants? This text sketches theoretically a short scenario on safety and precautions of biologically installation of non-physiological antioxidants. This article is an update of previously published article by EC Orthopaedics 5.2 (2017): 29-31, where the author reserves all rights.


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