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Doctor’s house call visit

If you fell not so good, it is  it necessary to turn to the clinic. If you do not have an opportunity to visit the clinic, there is another option as an alternative – doctor’s house call visit. Universum clinic provides this service in Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine: Lviv, Chernivtsi, Uzhgorod, Khmelnytskyi.

When is a doctor's  hose call necessary?

There is nothing extraordinary about receiving medical care at home: people call an ambulance in case of emergencies, invite a district doctor if there is no way to get to a clinic.

There are enough reasons for this:

• If it is far and inconvenient to get to the clinic, and the family doctor does not have time to help;
• If there are health problems that do not require calling an ambulance;
• If the person with low mobility, for example, a bedridden patient with diseases of the joints, spine or lower limbs, after a stroke;
• If you want to avoid contact with a lot of people, so as not to get infected with respiratory infections, such as flu, COVID-19 and others;
• If the patient has a chronic disease that requires constant treatment with prescription drugs;
• If medical monitoring of the state of health is required, medical procedures must be carried out at home (injections, drips, bandages);
• If there is simply no time or desire to come to the clinic and stand in line at the register, under the doctor's office.
• When you call a Universum clinic doctor at home, you can count on a quick response and professional medical consultation in comfortable conditions for the patient.

When is a doctor’s house call needed? 

There are many conditions when you need not to call an ambulance, but you rather need the consultation of an experienced and qualified doctor.

The following symptoms can be the reason for a house call visit of the LuxMedic Clinic’s  doctor:

• If you feel unwell;
• increase of  temperature; fever;
• nausea, vomiting, liquid stools;
• stomach pain, headache;
• ARVI symptoms – cough, itching, sore throat;
• low or high blood pressure;
• shortness of breath, feeling of lack of air, inability to take a full chest breath;
• pain and ache in muscles, joints;
• disorders of the genitourinary system - inflammation, difficulty urinating;
• pronounced itching of the skin, rashes on the skin;
• severe runny nose, nasal congestion, earache, hearing impairment; 
• attacks of dizziness, balance disorder  
• changes in the condition of a chronic patient, for example, an increase in blood glucose (for the patients with diabetes)

A doctor's house call visit be especially relevant in case  if a child or an elderly person is ill because  it is not always easy for such patients to get to the clinic, consultation in a clinic can be less comfortable for children than at home.

In such situations we recomend  to organize a doctor’s house call: Kyiv is included in the list of cities where Universum clinic provides such kind of a service.

Which specialists are available for house calls?

Gone are the days when a house call visit was provided by a district therapist with a stethoscope. Contacting LuxMedic Clinic, you can get a wide range of medical services without leaving your house.

We can provide a house call visit of the following specialists:

• general practitioner;
• pediatrician;
• ENT doctor;
• surgeon;
• neurologist;
• orthopedic traumatologist.

If  nurse’s visit is needed, for example for  manipulations or procedures prescribed to the patient in this case a nurse to be called home.

In addition to a doctor’s consultation and performing manipulations our specialists can:

• take blood samples;
• make an ultrasound;
• make an ECG.

Contact Universum clinic in a convenient way: call us to  the numbers indicated on the website, enter your phone number in the callback service window, leave a request in electronic form. Our operator will call you back and will help you to arrange a house call visit.

What is included in the doctor's home call service? 

A doctor or nurse comes to the home on call in hygienic overalls, shoes are put on overshoes. The patient can be interviewed and examined only after hygienic treatment of the hands.

The team individually approaches filling the consultation at home. Our doctor provides both mandatory and optional services related to a person's condition:

• collects anamnesis from the patient and his relatives;
• conducts a physical examination - palpation, auscultation, control of the patient's neurological status;
• measures blood pressure, counts pulse rate, respiratory movements;
• performs rapid tests for common infections, rapid analyzes for diagnosing diseases and assessing the patient's condition;
• measures blood glucose level;
• assesses blood oxygen saturation with a pulse oximeter;
• assesses the possibility of conducting a full-fledged consultation outside the clinic;
• if necessary - makes the ECG and deciphers it;
• treats wounds and makes bandages;
• arries out analgesia, puts blockades in case of acute pain syndrome;
• if necessary, an ultrasound is performed by a specialist using a modern compact device.

Based on the results of the examination, the doctor decides what medical services the patient needs at home. This may be the appointment of a course of treatment, including nursing manipulations. The doctor will write a prescription for the necessary medicine right at home. We will definitely give recommendations: how to control the condition, what are the signs of its deterioration, when to make a follow-up consultation.

In some cases, the doctor can recommend hospitalizationin, in other cases such the LuxMedic Clinic’s service  as medical transportation can be recommended. We provide transportation carefully and comfortable for the patient.

On a nursing call, our medical worker can take blood samples at home to deliver them to the laboratory, the results of the tests are reported to the person in the way that is most convenient for him.

Also, the nurse performs manipulations and procedures prescribed by the doctor, but does not give recommendations or make changes to the therapeutic course.

The maximum benefit from doctor’s house call

Universum clinic offers such a service not only in Kyiv, but also in other cities. Our doctors visit people in the capital and beyond its administrative borders in  the suburbs.

Contact the clinic operator if following services are needed:

• to have a consultation with different kinds of doctors;
• to perform medical manipulations and procedures;
• to make an ECG or ultrasound;
• to make  express tests to define diagnosis.

The specialist forms the team of ambulance depending on the situation and sends the car to the address as quickly as possible.

When urgent medical assistance is needed, the operator recognizes such cases and tells how to act. This is how we help adults and children maintain their health, even without a doctor's house call visit.

List of used sources

1. California Department of Social Services, “THE HOME VISIT CHECKLIST”;

2. West Pennine Local Medical Committee  “HOME VISITING GUIDELINES”.