Special attention to nurses’ protection during the COVID-19 epidemic
| Autor: | Lingna Yu, Lishan Huang, Zhilai Zhou, Guanwen Lin, Li Tang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Medical staff Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) business.industry lcsh:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid Vulnerability COVID-19 030208 emergency & critical care medicine lcsh:RC86-88.9 Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine medicine.disease 03 medical and health sciences Health personnel 0302 clinical medicine Medicine Medical emergency General hospital China business Coronavirus Infections |
| Zdroj: | Critical Care, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 1-3 (2020) Critical care, 24(1):120 |
| ISSN: | 1364-8535 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13054-020-2841-7 |
| Popis: | As of March 8, 2020, the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) had caused 80,815 human infections and 3073 deaths in China, including more than 3000 infections among medical staff. Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital (Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China), a provincial emergency hospital, has treated more than 35 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 260 suspected cases. Most of nurses’ work involves direct contact with patients. As nurses have high vulnerability to COVID-19, it is necessary to establish hospital-specific protocols to reduce the risk of nurses’ infection in interactions with COVID-19 patients. Our hospital has maintained a “zero nurse infection” rate while battling SARS in 2003 and during the present COVID-19 epidemic. The following are the key measures implemented in our hospital. |
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