{"id":130495,"date":"2022-01-22T12:34:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T12:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=130495"},"modified":"2022-01-22T12:34:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T12:34:50","slug":"purposive-testing-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/purposive-testing-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Purposive Testing Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Amid rising cases of which of the following disease, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) issued new guidelines on Purposive Testing Strategy?<br><\/strong>a) Covid-19<br>b) AIDS<br>c) Dengue<br>d) TB<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) issued new guidelines on Purposive Testing Strategy, amid rising cases of covid-19 cases.<\/li><li>ICMR issued guidelines on who needs to get tested for the infection, and who doesn\u2019t.<\/li><li>As per the guidelines, asymptomatic individuals, and contacts of Covid patients are not required to be tested unless identified as high-risk individuals based on co-morbidities or age.<\/li><li>It also mentioned that at-risk contacts of patients would be person aged above 60 years and individuals with co-morbidities such as chronic lung or kidney disease, diabetes, hypertension, malignancy and obesity.<\/li><li>People undertaking \u201cinter-state domestic travel is also not required to get tested.<\/li><li>People need to be tested In community settings:<\/li><li>Symptomatic individuals.<\/li><li>At-risk contacts (elderly and individual with co-morbidity) of laboratory confirmed cases.<\/li><li>Individuals undertaking international travel.<\/li><li>International travelers arriving at Indian airports or sea-ports or ports of entries.<\/li><li>Guidelines for the hospital settings:<\/li><li>Testing may be undertaken as per discretion of the treating doctor.<\/li><li>Emergency procedure (surgeries, deliveries etc) should not be delayed for lack of a test.<\/li><li>Patients should not be referred to other facilities, in case there is lack of testing facility.<\/li><li>Asymptomatic patients undergoing surgical or non-surgical invasive procedures or pregnant women in or near labour should not be tested unless symptoms develop.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Rajesh Tripathi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icmr.gov.in\/pdf\/covid\/strategy\/Advisory_COVID_Testing_10012022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.icmr.gov.in\/pdf\/covid\/strategy\/Advisory_COVID_Testing_10012022.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Amid rising cases of which of the following disease, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) issued new guidelines on Purposive Testing Strategy?a) Covid-19b) AIDSc) Dengued) TBAnswer: (a)Related Facts:- The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) issued new guidelines on Purposive Testing Strategy, amid rising cases of covid-19 cases. 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