Practical strategies to reduce nosocomial transmission to healthcare professionals providing respiratory care to patients with COVID-19

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an emerging viral infection that is rapidly spreading across the globe. SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the same coronavirus class that caused respiratory illnesses such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). During the SARS and MERS outbreaks, many frontline healthcare workers were infected when performing high-risk aerosol-generating medical procedures as well as when providing basic patient care. Similarly, COVID-19 disease has been reported to infect healthcare workers at a rate of ~ 3% of cases treated in the USA. In this review, we conducted an extensive literature search to develop practical strategies that can be implemented when providing respiratory treatments to COVID-19 patients, with the aim to help prevent nosocomial transmission to the frontline workers.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

Critical care (London, England) - 24(2020), 1 vom: 23. Sept., Seite 571

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kaur, Ramandeep [VerfasserIn]
Weiss, Tyler T [VerfasserIn]
Perez, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Fink, James B [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Rongchang [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Fengming [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Zongan [VerfasserIn]
Mirza, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Li, Jie [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Aerosol-generating procedures
Aerosols
Journal Article
Nosocomial infection
Respiratory care
Review

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Date Completed 28.09.2020

Date Revised 18.12.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s13054-020-03231-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM315385936