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Eyfferth T, Koczulla AR, Freytag HW, Krahl G, Ackermann C, Bultmann S, Reimertz R, Dresing K. [The problem of long/post-COVID in expert assessments]. Unfallchirurgie (Heidelb) 2023; 126:373-386. [PMID: 37079057 PMCID: PMC10117274 DOI: 10.1007/s00113-023-01297-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 04/21/2023]
Abstract
Assessing long/post-COVID syndrome (PCS) following an infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a multidisciplinary challenge due to the diverse and complex symptoms. Besides discipline-specific evaluation of infection-related organ damage, the main issue is expert objectivity and causality assessment regarding subjective symptoms. The consequences of long/PCS raise questions of insurance rights in all fields of law. In cases of persistent impairment of performance, determining reduction in earning capacity is crucial for those affected. Recognition as an occupational disease (BK no. 3101) is vital for employees in healthcare and welfare sectors, along with occupational accident recognition and assessing the illness's consequences, including the reduction in earning capacity (MdE) in other sectors or work areas. Therefore, expert assessments of illness consequences and differentiation from previous illnesses or damage disposition are necessary in all areas of law, individually based on corresponding organ manifestations in medical fields and interdisciplinarily for complex late sequelae, for instance, by internists with appropriate qualifications for pulmonary or cardiac manifestations and neurologists, psychiatrists, and neuropsychologists for neurological and psychiatric manifestations, etc.
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Affiliation(s)
- T Eyfferth
- BG Service- und Rehabilitationszentrum, BG Unfallklinik Frankfurt am Main gGmbH, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Main, Friedberger Landstr. 430, 60389, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland.
- Sektion Begutachtung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie (DGOU), Berlin, Deutschland.
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- Schön Klinik Berchtesgadener Land, Schönau am Königssee, Deutschland
- Professur für Pneumologische Rehabilitation Philipps Universität Marburg, Deutsches Zentrum für Lungenforschung, Marburg, Deutschland
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- Psychotraumatologie (PZDT), BG Unfallklinik Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
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- Psychotraumatologie (PZDT), BG Unfallklinik Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
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- Psychotraumatologie (PZDT), BG Unfallklinik Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
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- Sozialgericht Hamburg, Hamburg, Deutschland
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- BG Service- und Rehabilitationszentrum, BG Unfallklinik Frankfurt am Main gGmbH, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Main, Friedberger Landstr. 430, 60389, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie und Plastische Chirurgie, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Göttingen, Deutschland
- Sektion Begutachtung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie (DGOU), Berlin, Deutschland
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