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cord-282175-4b6wn04j	Barsoum, Zakaria	COVID-19 pandemic: personal view to a new model of pediatric practice	2020-06-10		.txt	text/plain	487	40	45	title: COVID-19 pandemic: personal view to a new model of pediatric practice Virtual consultations deploying recent technology have now replaced the normal practice of routine clinics. Virtual consultations minimise the risk of COVID-19 transmission, promote public protection and reduce the backlog of waiting lists during this time of testing. Virtual clinics are useful tools at the time of COVID-19 pandemic when health care demands are pressing. The preponderance of them are well and parents can provide a detailed allergy focused clinical history guided by clinicians during virtual consultations. In our unit, paediatric allergy team had forethought to launch virtual clinics before recent recommendations from The British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI) justified this model [2] . In brief, virtual clinics are useful at times of pandemics although they lack direct clinical relationship with patients. Virtual consultations deploy recent technology in medicine and are recommended by professional bodies. COVID-19: pandemic contingency planning for the allergy and immunology clinic	./cache/cord-282175-4b6wn04j.txt	./txt/cord-282175-4b6wn04j.txt