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Managing Obstetrical Patients During Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is a newly described infectious disease caused by a coronavirus. Two outbreaks occurred in Toronto in the spring of 2003, resulting in the closure of 3 hospitals, including 2 obstetrical units. Strategies, devised using information about the coronavirus avail...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7128168/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14715124 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1701-2163(16)30694-6 |
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description | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is a newly described infectious disease caused by a coronavirus. Two outbreaks occurred in Toronto in the spring of 2003, resulting in the closure of 3 hospitals, including 2 obstetrical units. Strategies, devised using information about the coronavirus available at the time as well as epidemiologic and infectious disease containment measures were initiated to protect obstetrical patients and staff. In the first outbreak, the obstetrical unit of an affected Toronto hospital was kept open while other clinical services were closed. In the second outbreak, the obstetrical unit was closed along with all other clinical activities. This report details the stepwise processes used to make decisions during the SARS outbreaks and the implementation of the decisions made. It is recommended that these or similar protocols be used when an obstetrical unit is confronted with a large-scale nosocomial infectious outbreak that has a mechanism of transmission similar to that of SARS. |
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spelling | pubmed-71281682020-04-08 Managing Obstetrical Patients During Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak Owolabi, Titus Kwolek, Susan J Obstet Gynaecol Can Article Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is a newly described infectious disease caused by a coronavirus. Two outbreaks occurred in Toronto in the spring of 2003, resulting in the closure of 3 hospitals, including 2 obstetrical units. Strategies, devised using information about the coronavirus available at the time as well as epidemiologic and infectious disease containment measures were initiated to protect obstetrical patients and staff. In the first outbreak, the obstetrical unit of an affected Toronto hospital was kept open while other clinical services were closed. In the second outbreak, the obstetrical unit was closed along with all other clinical activities. This report details the stepwise processes used to make decisions during the SARS outbreaks and the implementation of the decisions made. It is recommended that these or similar protocols be used when an obstetrical unit is confronted with a large-scale nosocomial infectious outbreak that has a mechanism of transmission similar to that of SARS. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2004-01 2016-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7128168/ /pubmed/14715124 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1701-2163(16)30694-6 Text en Copyright © 2004 Published by Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Owolabi, Titus Kwolek, Susan Managing Obstetrical Patients During Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak |
title | Managing Obstetrical Patients During Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak |
title_full | Managing Obstetrical Patients During Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak |
title_fullStr | Managing Obstetrical Patients During Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak |
title_full_unstemmed | Managing Obstetrical Patients During Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak |
title_short | Managing Obstetrical Patients During Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak |
title_sort | managing obstetrical patients during severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7128168/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14715124 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1701-2163(16)30694-6 |
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