We should test all admitted patients We can't expose our staff without appropriate PPE, only to find out days later that the patient was actually positive. These are not "surprises" anymore. Many many atypical presentations.https://twitter.com/First10EM/status/1249871404088131586?s=20 …
we got rapid test recently which has eased this burden however we still test higher risk patients a second time if there is enough suspicion. Before POC i argued we needed a low and high risk pathway so as not to waste excess PPE