Isolation: Serious, Infectious Diseases

All persons staying in hospitals should be protected against exposure to infectious agents, and especially to high-risk, dangerous agents - that pose a risk to health and life. It is not acceptable to place a patient with a known high-risk, serious infection in the same hospital room as other patien...

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Autor principal: Andersen, Bjørg Marit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7120275/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99921-0_83
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description All persons staying in hospitals should be protected against exposure to infectious agents, and especially to high-risk, dangerous agents - that pose a risk to health and life. It is not acceptable to place a patient with a known high-risk, serious infection in the same hospital room as other patients (WHO). In this chapter, the preparedness of isolation capacity and escalation of hospital beds for patients with dangerous infections are described.
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spelling pubmed-71202752020-04-06 Isolation: Serious, Infectious Diseases Andersen, Bjørg Marit Prevention and Control of Infections in Hospitals Article All persons staying in hospitals should be protected against exposure to infectious agents, and especially to high-risk, dangerous agents - that pose a risk to health and life. It is not acceptable to place a patient with a known high-risk, serious infection in the same hospital room as other patients (WHO). In this chapter, the preparedness of isolation capacity and escalation of hospital beds for patients with dangerous infections are described. 2018-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7120275/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99921-0_83 Text en © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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