What about using sniffin' sticks 12 items test to screen post-COVID-19 olfactory disorders?

xlomafota13 shared this article with you from Inoreader What about using sniffin' sticks 12 items test to screen post-COVID-19 olfactory disorders? Via http://link.springer.com/journal/405,European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology,The European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2021 Oct 30. doi: 10.1007/s00405-021-07148-y. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Post-COVID-19 Olfactory impairment has a negative impact on quality of life. The Sniffin Sticks test 12 items (SST-12) can be used in quick olfactory disorders screening. Its evaluation in a post-covid-19 situation was the main objective of this work. METHODS: All patient impaired with a post-COVID olfactory loss were included while consulting to the ENT department. The clinical examination included an olfaction recovery self-assessment (VAS), a nasofibroscopy, a quality of life (QoL) assessment, the complete Sniffin' Sticks Test (SST), and the SST-12. RESULTS: Among the 54 patients included, 92% (n = 50) were correctly screened as olfactory impaired by SST-12. We report excellent correlations between SST-12 and SST (rho (52) = 0.98, p < 0.001), QoL(rho(52) = 0.33 p = 0.016), or VAS ( rho(52) = 0.49, p < 0.001) assessments. CONCLUSIONS: SST-12 is a quick and reliable tool to screen large-scale population of post-COVID-19 olfactory impaired patients and could be used in a general daily clinical practice. PMID:34716806 | DOI:10.1007/s00405-021-07148-y View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.