The 2019 novel corona virus outbreak – An institutional guideline

Suresh, Varun

doi:10.4103/ija.ija_104_20

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“…For example, activities related to chest kinesiotherapy maneuvers, inhalation therapy, cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques with manual and mechanical ventilation; as well as bronchial hygiene through medical devices such as tracheal gold tubes and tracheotomies, pose a high risk of contagion (15,16). Aerosols produced during these maneuvers are also potentially dangerous for anesthesiologists (17,18). Some procedures performed by otolaryngologists involve direct contact with the mucosa of the respiratory tract, and basic examination of the airways can induce coughing or sneezing in patients, which increases the possibility of SARS-CoV-2 infection by microdroplet inhalation.…”

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Occupational health in the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review

Betancourt-Sánchez

Ochoa-Gelvez²,

Velásquez-Bernal³

et al. 2020

Rev. salud pública

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Objective To collect the available evidence related to occupational health in the face of the introduction of the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic.Methods Scoping review developed from the Arksey and O'Malley framework. The search was performed in the databases PubMed, Academic Search Complete, Science Direct, Medline, Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Documents on COVID-19 and its relationship with occupational health published in English, Portuguese and Spanish were included. The review, selection and characterization of the studies was carried out by five reviewers.Results The search and selection identified 43 documents published between December 2019 and April 2020. The topics covered include occupational exposure, protection measures, psychosocial affectations of workers, particularly health, as well as conditions of work organization that can influence contagion.Conclusions Health workers are the most exposed workforce. Accompaniment, coaching and training in relation to patient care and the use of personal protection equipment are essential to reduce contagion among health personnel. In other work activities, social distancing is the standard measure for the mitigation of transmission, as well as the continuous disinfection of workplaces.

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Section: Occupational Exposure To Sars-cov-2mentioning

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Occupational health in the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review

Betancourt-Sánchez

Ochoa-Gelvez²,

Velásquez-Bernal³

et al. 2020

Rev. salud pública

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“…[ 19 ] Strict quality vigilance exists for the manuscripts submitted to the IJA, and as a result, the COVID manuscripts have been associated with quite a high rejection rate of nearly 84% [ Figure 1 ]; nevertheless, a variety of COVID-19 related manuscripts got published in the previous issues of the IJA. [ 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 ]…”

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Research in COVID times—Innovations, revolutions and contentions

Mehdiratta¹,

Bajwa

Kurdi

et al. 2021

Indian Journal of Anaesthesia

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“…Relevant articles were collected electronically, and the references of those were manually searched further. The recommendations of the Chinese Society of Anaesthesiology based on their Wuhan experience,[ 29 ] Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain,[ 30 31 ] and selected institutional guidelines[ 32 ] were imbibed into for preparing this review.…”

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Airborne Infections and Emergency Surgery

Suresh

2021

Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons

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COVID-19 which emerged in Wuhan, China has rapidly spread all over the globe and the World Health Organisation has declared it a pandemic. COVID-19 disease severity shows variation depending on demographic characteristics like age, history of chronic illnesses such as cardio-vascular/renal/respiratory disease; pregnancy; immune-suppression; angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor medication use; NSAID use etc but the pattern of disease spread is uniform – human to human through contact, droplets and fomites. Up to 3.5% of health care workers treating COVID-19 contact an infection themselves with 14.8% of these infections severe and 0.3% fatal. The situation has spread panic even among health care professionals and the cry for safe patient care practices are resonated world-wide. Surgeons, anesthesiologists and intensivists who very frequently perform endotracheal intubation, tracheostomy, non-invasive ventilation and manual ventilation before intubation are at a higher odds ratio of 6.6, 4.2, 3.1 and 2.8 respectively of contacting an infection themselves. Elective surgery is almost always deferred in fever/infection scenarios. A surgeon and an anesthesiologist can anytime encounter a situation where in a COVID-19 patient requires an emergency surgery. COVID-19 cases requiring surgery predispose anesthesiologists and surgeons to cross-infection threats. This paper discusses, the COVID-19 precautionary outlines which has to be followed in the operating room; personal protective strategies available at present; methods to raise psychological preparedness of medical professionals during a pandemic; conduct of anesthesia in COVID-19 cases/suspect cases; methods of decontamination after conducting a surgery for COVID-19 case in the operating room; and post-exposure prophylaxis for medical professionals.

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The 2019 novel corona virus outbreak – An institutional guideline

Cited by 16 publications

References 4 publications

Occupational health in the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review

Occupational health in the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review

Research in COVID times—Innovations, revolutions and contentions

Airborne Infections and Emergency Surgery

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