Response and Operating Room Preparation for the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Perspective From the National Heart Centre in Singapore

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a respiratory disease from a novel coronavirus that was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, is now a public health emergency and pandemic. Singapore, as a major international transportation hub in Asia, has been one of the worst h...

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Autores principales: Tan, Zihui, Phoon, Priscilla Hui Yi, Zeng, Ling Antonia, Fu, Jing, Lim, Xiao Ting, Tan, Teing Ee, Loh, Kenny Wei-Tsen, Goh, Meng Huat
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7156245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32303395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2020.03.050
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author Tan, Zihui
Phoon, Priscilla Hui Yi
Zeng, Ling Antonia
Fu, Jing
Lim, Xiao Ting
Tan, Teing Ee
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description The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a respiratory disease from a novel coronavirus that was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, is now a public health emergency and pandemic. Singapore, as a major international transportation hub in Asia, has been one of the worst hit countries by the disease. With the advent of local transmission, the authors share their preparation and response planning for the operating room of the National Heart Centre Singapore, the largest cardiothoracic tertiary center in Singapore. Protection of staff and patients, environmental concerns, and other logistic and equipment issues are considered.
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spelling pubmed-71562452020-04-15 Response and Operating Room Preparation for the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Perspective From the National Heart Centre in Singapore Tan, Zihui Phoon, Priscilla Hui Yi Zeng, Ling Antonia Fu, Jing Lim, Xiao Ting Tan, Teing Ee Loh, Kenny Wei-Tsen Goh, Meng Huat J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth Article The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a respiratory disease from a novel coronavirus that was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, is now a public health emergency and pandemic. Singapore, as a major international transportation hub in Asia, has been one of the worst hit countries by the disease. With the advent of local transmission, the authors share their preparation and response planning for the operating room of the National Heart Centre Singapore, the largest cardiothoracic tertiary center in Singapore. Protection of staff and patients, environmental concerns, and other logistic and equipment issues are considered. Elsevier Inc. 2020-09 2020-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7156245/ /pubmed/32303395 http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2020.03.050 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 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.
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Loh, Kenny Wei-Tsen
Goh, Meng Huat
Response and Operating Room Preparation for the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Perspective From the National Heart Centre in Singapore
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title_short Response and Operating Room Preparation for the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Perspective From the National Heart Centre in Singapore
title_sort response and operating room preparation for the covid-19 outbreak: a perspective from the national heart centre in singapore
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7156245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32303395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2020.03.050
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