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The Servizo Galego de Saúde (Sergas) performs, among other tests to detect cases of Covid-19, a rectal test that is reserved for seriously hospitalized people with "high airway compromise", as well as newborns or patients
with "little collaboration" or in "agitated situation".
This has been confirmed by sources from the Department of Health to Europa Press, who have explained that in Galicia the technique of obtaining the sample to determine coronavirus infection is carried out
"in a usual way" with nasopharyngeal samples "mostly".
However, the same sources have specified that in the case of critically ill hospitalized patients,
"with high airway compromise
, or on mechanical ventilation, it may" be indicated to obtain the sample rectally ".
It also reserves the use of this test for newborns "
given the difficulty of holding the child's head
and the peculiarities of the anatomy of the airway", as well as for patients "with little collaboration or situations of agitation", to which He adds that for people with certain psychiatric pathologies
"this alternative could be said."
Sanidade has pointed out that the use of this test by rectal route has occurred
"since the beginning of the pandemic, without there being any recent procedural change"
in the Galician Community.
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