{"id":9499,"date":"2021-04-29T17:01:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T00:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9499"},"modified":"2021-04-30T17:02:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T00:02:48","slug":"complications-of-covid-19-nasopharyngeal-swab-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/29\/complications-of-covid-19-nasopharyngeal-swab-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Complications of COVID-19 Nasopharyngeal Swab Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Complications requiring emergency department treatment from nasopharyngeal swab sampling for SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests occurred in 1.24 per 100,000 tests during a 7-month period in Helsinki University Hospital, Finland. Out of over 640,000 PCR tests performed, 8 complication-related visits were identified in patients presenting to the emergency department (4 nasal bleeds, of which half were potentially life threatening, and 4 broken swabs). All complications seem to have involved an incorrect sampling technique.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Koskinen et al.\u00a0(Apr 29, 2021). Complications of COVID-19 Nasopharyngeal Swab Test. JAMA Otolaryngology\u2013Head &amp; Neck Surgery. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamaoto.2021.0715\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamaoto.2021.0715<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complications requiring emergency department treatment from nasopharyngeal swab sampling for SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests occurred in 1.24 per 100,000 tests during a 7-month period in Helsinki University Hospital, Finland. Out of over 640,000 PCR tests performed, 8 complication-related visits were identified in patients presenting to the emergency department (4 nasal bleeds, of which half were potentially&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/29\/complications-of-covid-19-nasopharyngeal-swab-test\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[195,27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-9499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-adverse-effects","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9500,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499\/revisions\/9500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9499"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}