COVID-19 and heat waves: New challenges for healthcare systems

Autor: Jason Kai Wei Lee, Stefan Karrasch, Nicola Gerrett, Julia Schoierer, Joy Shumake-Guillemot, Hanna Mertes, Stephan Bose-O’Reilly, Katharina Deering, Hein A.M. Daanen, Franziska Matthies-Wiesler, Dennis Nowak, Maud Huynen, Peter van den Hazel, Joris Adriaan Frank van Loenhout
Přispěvatelé: Physiology, AMS - Sports, Maastricht Sustainability Institute, RS: GSBE MSI, UCL - SSS/IRSS - Institut de recherche santé et société
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
summer
STRESS
Hot Temperature
Psychological intervention
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Biochemistry
Occupational safety and health
0302 clinical medicine
SARS-Cov2
heat related health problem
Pandemic
Health care
Infection control
personal protection equipment
030212 general & internal medicine
General Environmental Science
Heat related health problem
Heat wave
Risk analysis (engineering)
PPE
Covid-19
heat wave
health care personnel
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Health Personnel
Summer
Article
03 medical and health sciences
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
Humans
Health care personnel
Pandemics
Personal Protective Equipment
Personal protective equipment
Aged
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Personal protection equipment PPE
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
COVID-19
SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
PERFORMANCE
Personal protection equipment
Business
Delivery of Health Care
Zdroj: Bose-O'Reilly, S, Daanen, H, Deering, K, Gerrett, N, Huynen, M M T E, Lee, J, Karrasch, S, Matthies-Wiesler, F, Mertes, H, Schoierer, J, Shumake-Guillemot, J, van den Hazel, P, Frank van Loenhout, J A & Nowak, D 2021, ' COVID-19 and heat waves : New challenges for healthcare systems ', Environmental Research, vol. 198, 111153, pp. 1-8 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.111153
Environmental Research
Environmental Research, 198:111153, 1-8. Academic Press Inc.
Environmental Research, 198:111153. Elsevier Science
Environmental Research, Vol. 198, p. e-111153 (2021)
ISSN: 0013-9351
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111153
Popis: Heat waves and Covid-19 overlap, as this pandemic continues into summer 2021. Using a narrative review, we identified overlapping risk groups and propose coping strategies. The high-risk groups for heat-related health problems as well as for high-risk COVID-19 groups overlap considerably (elderly with pre-existing health conditions). Health care facilities will again be challenged by Covid-19 during heat waves. Health care personnel are also at risk of developing heat related health problems during hot periods due to the use of personal protective equipment to shield themselves from SARS-CoV-2 and must therefore be protected from excessive heat periods. Some existing recommendations for heat health protection contradict recommendations for COVID-19 protection. This paper provides a preliminary overview of possible strategies and interventions to tackle these ambiguities. The existing recommendations for protection against heat-related illnesses need revisions to determine whether they include essential aspects of infection control and occupational safety and how they may be supplemented.
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