Nosocomial infections in psychiatric hospitals during the COVID-19 outbreak

Ji, Hai‐Feng; Liu, Li; Huang, Tianming; Zhu, Yuncheng

doi:10.1016/j.ejpsy.2020.04.001

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“…This index case with great capacity to cause infection was presumed to be a superspreader ( 4 ). Similar nosocomial infection cases were also found in France ( 5 , 6 ), Canada ( 7 ), China ( 8 ) and South Korea ( 9 ) ( Table I ). Hence, it is urgent to determine the cause of these nosocomial infection cases.…”

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“…During the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, the shortage of PPE and lack of awareness of the importance of personal protections were the main factors of new cases ( 34 , 44 ). In addition, healthcare workers in non-communicable disease departments did not have sufficient knowledge on how to deal with potentially infectious diseases ( 9 ). This explains why non-communicable healthcare workers may be more likely to be infected ( 45 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Nosocomial infection of COVID‑19: A new challenge for healthcare professionals (Review)

Zhang

et al. 2021

Int J Mol Med

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Nosocomial infections, also known as hospital-acquired infections, pose a serious challenge to healthcare professionals globally during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Nosocomial infection of COVID-19 directly impacts the quality of life of patients, as well as results in extra expenditure to hospitals. It has been shown that COVID-19 is more likely to transmit via close, unprotected contact with infected patients. Additionally, current preventative and containment measures tend to overlook asymptomatic individuals and superspreading events. Since the mode of transmission and real origin of COVID-19 in hospitals has not been fully elucidated yet, minimizing nosocomial infection in hospitals remains a difficult but urgent task for healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals globally should form an alliance against nosocomial COVID-19 infections. The fight against COVID-19 may provide valuable lessons for the future prevention and control of nosocomial infections. The present review will discuss some of the key strategies to prevent and control hospital-based nosocomial COVID-19 infections.

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Section: Influencing Factors Associated With Nosocomial Infectionmentioning

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Nosocomial infection of COVID‑19: A new challenge for healthcare professionals (Review)

Zhang

et al. 2021

Int J Mol Med

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“…More specifically, this attitude may result in inadequate health care for persons with mental illness, and lead to devastating consequences. For example, during the outbreak of the corona virus in China, as well as in South Korea, a high number of psychiatric patients quickly become infected with SARS-CoV-2, while the number of psychiatrists as well as the equipment, was generally lacking, which eventually led to the reorganization of the psychiatric care [5,6].…”

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Principles of mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020

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We describe the basic principles of mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic that should be endorsed by the mental health professional associations and incorporated in the health strategies for the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. The main principle is that there should be no substantial differences in the provision of health care for COVID-19 between persons with pre-existing mental health disorders and the ones without previous disorders. Subsequently, the organization of the health care should reflect that as well. These principles should (a) prevent the possible effects of stigmatizing attitudes toward mental health issues, possibly leading to potentially deleterious situations, such as psychiatric patients being treated (even temporarily) separately from other patients, in psychiatric facilities, where the staff is not equipped and trained adequately for the management of COVID-19; (b) highlight the fact that patients with mental health disorders are at greater risk for developing serious complications of COVID-19 infection due to other factors—they often smoke and have comorbidities such as hypertension, diabetes, all associated with higher morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 infection; (c) highlight that measures should be taken to minimize the risk of the spread of infection in psychiatric wards/institutions; (d) provide a general framework for the reorganization of mental health services toward the provision of services for persons in need, including frontline medical workers and patients with COVID-19 without previous mental health problems as well as for persons with pre-existing mental health problems under new circumstances of pandemic.

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“…They propose keeping electroconvulsive therapy, with fitting preventive measures (Tor et al, 2020), although it has not been done so in our case.There is no literature on the adaptation of half-term units to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the changes generated are replicated in other studies made in STHUs, even if some measures like patient discharge after two weeks of stay is not appliable to this resource (Ji et al, 2020;Zhu et al, 2020). There is no experience either about the closure of rehabilitation units due to the pandemic, but the assertion can be made that close, multidisciplinary support via telephone, although provisional as management strategy, seems to be effective to minimize relapses, with the patients experiencing a similar subjective perception of support.…”

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The response of the mental health network of the Salamanca area to the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of the telemedicine.

Roncero

García-Ullán

Iglesia-Larrad

et al. 2020

Psychiatry Research

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Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre-including this research content-immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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Nosocomial infections in psychiatric hospitals during the COVID-19 outbreak

Cited by 32 publications

References 3 publications

Nosocomial infection of COVID‑19: A new challenge for healthcare professionals (Review)

Nosocomial infection of COVID‑19: A new challenge for healthcare professionals (Review)

Principles of mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic

The response of the mental health network of the Salamanca area to the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of the telemedicine.

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