The use of personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic in a tertiary pediatric hospital.

Autor: Dibbs RP; Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.; Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA., Ferry AM; Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.; Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA., Enochs J; Department of Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA., Ward A; Department of Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA., Glover CD; Department of Anesthesiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA., Archer N; Department of Surgery, Texas Children's Pavilion for Women, Houston, Texas, USA., Taylor KD; Department of Anesthesiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA., Almaguer-Bravo J; Department of Anesthesiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA., Hollier LH Jr; Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.; Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management [J Healthc Risk Manag] 2021 Apr; Vol. 40 (4), pp. 38-44. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jan 25.
DOI: 10.1002/jhrm.21460
Abstrakt: The provision of health care in the perioperative setting has undergone significant changes due to severe respiratory distress syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Hospital facilities have been tasked with developing and implementing personal protective equipment (PPE) protocols to protect both medical providers and patients. Texas Children's Hospital has created a set of protocols for donning and doffing PPE while managing surgical pediatric patients. These requirements have undergone numerous modifications as a result of our internal infrastructural recommendations and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, which has led to more lenient regulations. While these perioperative PPE protocols were less stringent compared to the original guidelines, we were able to create a safe surgical environment without further exposing patients and health care providers to SARS-CoV-2. In this article, we detail the design, distribution, implementation, and modification of our institutional surgical PPE protocols.
(© 2021 American Society for Healthcare Risk Management of the American Hospital Association.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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