WVU Medicine Urgent Care is now offering virtual video visits
What our providers can treat in a video visit:
- Abdominal pain (minor)
- Allergy
- Back pain (minor)
- Cold sores
- Cough
- Cuts and bruises (minor)
- Diarrhea
- Fevers (mild)
- Gout
- Head injury (minor)
- Headache (mild)
- Heartburn
- Lymph node swelling
- Motion sickness
- Mouth sores
- Pink eye
- Rashes
- Runny nose (rhinorrhea)
- Sinus pain
- Sore throat
- Sprains or strains
- Upper respiratory illness (mild)
- Urinary tract infection (UTI) or urinary frequency
- Viruses
- Vomiting
What they cannot treat:
More serious conditions that require an in-person visit to the doctor cannot be treated through virtual urgent care. Such conditions include the following:
- Acute vision changes
- Behavioral and mental health issues
- Chest pain or palpitations
- Stroke-like symptoms, such as sudden-onset weakness, numbness, or tingling
- Blood in the stool
- Breast complaints
- Chronic pain
- Complications of cancer treatment
- Congestive heart failure
- Coughing up blood
- Drug overdose
- Fractures
- Genital complaints
- Hemorrhage
- Large cuts or lacerations
- Mental status changes
- Pregnancy complications
- Psychiatric disorders
- Respiratory distress
- Seizure
- Severe headache or migraine
- Sickle cell disease
- Vomiting blood