Protective measures for COVID-19 for healthcare providers and laboratory personnel

Abstract

In the COVID-19 pandemic, which affects the whole world, healthcare professionals (HCP) are at high risk of transmission due to their direct contact with patients with COVID-19. Therefore, how to ensure the triage of the patient with acute respiratory symptoms should be determined in advance, the contact distance should be arranged to be at least 2 m, COVID-19 suspect or diagnosed patient should be instructed to wear a surgical mask. During the care of these patients, HCP should wear their personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with the procedure and should not neglect hand hygiene. The samples of the patient with known or suspected COVID-19, patient should also be known to be risky in terms of contamination, and a risk assessment should be performed for the procedures to be performed in laboratories. The PPE should be used in accordance with the procedure to be performed. The protection of the HCP, who sacrifice at the risk of life, is possible only by complying with infection control and precautions.

Organization of outpatient consultations at a hand surgery department in a French university hospital during the COVID-19 lockdown

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The attitude of Turkish general surgeons during the COVID-19 pandemic: results of “general surgery COVID-19 pandemic attitude survey”

“…This situation shows that health professionals must protect themselves first, in order to achieve victory in the fight against the pandemic. There are precautions to be taken regarding health professionals (5). The Turkish Surgical Society has also conducted a study on the precautions surgeons should take during this process (6).…”

SARS-CoV-2 Modelo de Inoculación en la Cavidad Oral. Revisión de la Literatura

“…Como personal de salud en la practica estomatológica debemos de tener la consideración de que el SARS-CoV-2 utiliza la cavidad oral y faringe como puerta de entrada, una vez revisada la evidencia científica se puede considerar como un reservorio del virus que se encuentra en constante replicación con la finalidad de formar cada vez más copias virales aumentado su carga viral, esta es potencialmente infecciosa y se puede diseminar hacia otros órganos y tejidos del cuerpo, pero así mismo las glándulas pueden expeler una cantidad importante de viriones en estas microgotas de saliva que aunado a los métodos odontológicos como la pieza de mano de alta velocidad potencia de una manera muy importante la generación de aerosoles con suspensión de partículas virales potencialmente infecciosas. Estas pueden quedar distribuidas en todo el consultorio en superficies, unidad dental, aparato de rayos x y demás fómites y por supuesto en el operador (Agalar & Öztürk Engin, 2020;Malhotra et al, 2020).…”