Topical lignocaine anaesthesia for oropharyngeal sampling for COVID-19

OBJECTIVES: To ascertain if topical lignocaine application in oropharynx prior to swab sampling to test for COVID-19 improves a patient’s comfort and to assess its effect on the swab sample taken to conduct the RT-PCR. METHODS: Adult patients testing positive on the RT-PCR COVID-19 test were sampled...

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Veröffentlicht in:Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol
Hauptverfasser: Kanodia, Anupam, Srigyan, Deepankar, Sikka, Kapil, Choudhary, Aashish, Choudekar, Avinash, Mittal, Saurabh, Bhopale, Shweta Arun, Dar, Lalit, Thakar, Alok
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7528153/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33001294
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-020-06402-z
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