Practical strategies to reduce nosocomial transmission to healthcare professionals providing respiratory care to patients with COVID-19.
Crit Care
; 24(1): 571, 2020 09 23.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-32967700
ABSTRACT
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.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Pneumonia Viral
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Síndrome do Desconforto Respiratório
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Infecção Hospitalar
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Controle de Infecções
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Transmissão de Doença Infecciosa do Paciente para o Profissional
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Infecções por Coronavirus
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Pandemias
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Observational_studies
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Systematic_reviews
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Crit Care
Ano de publicação:
2020
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos