Avaliação clínica e radiológica de profissionais de saúde rastreados ou com suspeita para COVID-19 em um hospital de alta complexidade da região do Submédio do Vale do São Francisco

Covid-19 is a highly contagious and pathogenic disease caused by the coronavirus, being responsible for the largest pandemic in modern history. It warns about how the virus manifests itself in health professionals, who work directly with those infected. Thus, the objective of the study was to analyze clinical, demographic and radiological aspects of health professionals suspected or confirmed with Covid-19. This is an observational, retrospective and descriptive study involving 721 health professionals from a reference hospital in the treatment of respiratory symptoms. The most affected were young, brown and female. In 9 cases, risk factors for the worsening of the disease were considered, namely age, obesity and hypertension. Most professionals have no symptoms. Among the symptomatic, the symptoms identified were cough, headache, runny nose, fever and sore throat. No total, 18.3% positive results for infection, of these, nursing technicians, doctors and doctors were the most frequent. The sectors with the highest number of people affected were medical clinic, emergency room and ICU. Approximately 92% progressed to cure and no deaths were found. 22 chest X-ray examinations were performed, of which 50% demonstrated changes. Of these, 60% were found typical, 13.3% atypical and 26.7% undetermined for Covid-19. Among the typical findings, 44.5% pulmonary compaction between 25% and 50% and 22.2% compression less than 25%. The findings of this analysis were in agreement with other data in the literature, strengthening the importance of protection and security that are at the forefront in the fight against COVID-19.