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Protective measures for COVID-19 for healthcare providers and laboratory personnel
In the COVID-19 pandemic, which affects the whole world, healthcare professionals (HCP) are at high risk of transmission due to their direct contact with patients with COVID-19. Therefore, how to ensure the triage of the patient with acute respiratory symptoms should be determined in advance, the co...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7195977/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32299205 http://dx.doi.org/10.3906/sag-2004-132 |
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author | AĞALAR, Canan ÖZTÜRK ENGİN, Derya |
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description | In the COVID-19 pandemic, which affects the whole world, healthcare professionals (HCP) are at high risk of transmission due to their direct contact with patients with COVID-19. Therefore, how to ensure the triage of the patient with acute respiratory symptoms should be determined in advance, the contact distance should be arranged to be at least 2 m, COVID-19 suspect or diagnosed patient should be instructed to wear a surgical mask. During the care of these patients, HCP should wear their personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with the procedure and should not neglect hand hygiene. The samples of the patient with known or suspected COVID-19, patient should also be known to be risky in terms of contamination, and a risk assessment should be performed for the procedures to be performed in laboratories. The PPE should be used in accordance with the procedure to be performed. The protection of the HCP, who sacrifice at the risk of life, is possible only by complying with infection control and precautions. |
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spelling | pubmed-71959772020-05-04 Protective measures for COVID-19 for healthcare providers and laboratory personnel AĞALAR, Canan ÖZTÜRK ENGİN, Derya Turk J Med Sci Article In the COVID-19 pandemic, which affects the whole world, healthcare professionals (HCP) are at high risk of transmission due to their direct contact with patients with COVID-19. Therefore, how to ensure the triage of the patient with acute respiratory symptoms should be determined in advance, the contact distance should be arranged to be at least 2 m, COVID-19 suspect or diagnosed patient should be instructed to wear a surgical mask. During the care of these patients, HCP should wear their personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with the procedure and should not neglect hand hygiene. The samples of the patient with known or suspected COVID-19, patient should also be known to be risky in terms of contamination, and a risk assessment should be performed for the procedures to be performed in laboratories. The PPE should be used in accordance with the procedure to be performed. The protection of the HCP, who sacrifice at the risk of life, is possible only by complying with infection control and precautions. The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey 2020-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7195977/ /pubmed/32299205 http://dx.doi.org/10.3906/sag-2004-132 Text en Copyright © 2019 The Author(s) This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Article AĞALAR, Canan ÖZTÜRK ENGİN, Derya Protective measures for COVID-19 for healthcare providers and laboratory personnel |
title | Protective measures for COVID-19 for healthcare providers and laboratory personnel |
title_full | Protective measures for COVID-19 for healthcare providers and laboratory personnel |
title_fullStr | Protective measures for COVID-19 for healthcare providers and laboratory personnel |
title_full_unstemmed | Protective measures for COVID-19 for healthcare providers and laboratory personnel |
title_short | Protective measures for COVID-19 for healthcare providers and laboratory personnel |
title_sort | protective measures for covid-19 for healthcare providers and laboratory personnel |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7195977/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32299205 http://dx.doi.org/10.3906/sag-2004-132 |
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