Prevention and protection measures of healthcare workers exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in a university hospital in Bari, Apulia, Southern Italy

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)-related infection has a major impact on public health, and healthcare workers (HCWs) are exposed to high biological risk. This paper describes the prevention procedures introduced at the University Hospital of Bari, Italy to reduce the ris...

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Autores principales: Vimercati, L., Dell’Erba, A., Migliore, G., De Maria, L., Caputi, A., Quarato, M., Stefanizzi, P., Cavone, D., Ferorelli, D., Sponselli, S., Mansi, F., Tafuri, S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Healthcare Infection Society. 2020
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239006/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32445776
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.05.024
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author Vimercati, L.
Dell’Erba, A.
Migliore, G.
De Maria, L.
Caputi, A.
Quarato, M.
Stefanizzi, P.
Cavone, D.
Ferorelli, D.
Sponselli, S.
Mansi, F.
Tafuri, S.
author_facet Vimercati, L.
Dell’Erba, A.
Migliore, G.
De Maria, L.
Caputi, A.
Quarato, M.
Stefanizzi, P.
Cavone, D.
Ferorelli, D.
Sponselli, S.
Mansi, F.
Tafuri, S.
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description Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)-related infection has a major impact on public health, and healthcare workers (HCWs) are exposed to high biological risk. This paper describes the prevention procedures introduced at the University Hospital of Bari, Italy to reduce the risk to HCWs, consisting of enhanced preventive measures and activation of a report system to collect HCWs' contacts. Twenty-three confirmed cases of infection (0.4% of all HCWs) were reported in the 30-day observation period following implementation of the protocol. This shows that correct management of HCWs' contacts is essential to avoid nosocomial clusters.
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spelling pubmed-72390062020-05-20 Prevention and protection measures of healthcare workers exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in a university hospital in Bari, Apulia, Southern Italy Vimercati, L. Dell’Erba, A. Migliore, G. De Maria, L. Caputi, A. Quarato, M. Stefanizzi, P. Cavone, D. Ferorelli, D. Sponselli, S. Mansi, F. Tafuri, S. J Hosp Infect Short Report Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)-related infection has a major impact on public health, and healthcare workers (HCWs) are exposed to high biological risk. This paper describes the prevention procedures introduced at the University Hospital of Bari, Italy to reduce the risk to HCWs, consisting of enhanced preventive measures and activation of a report system to collect HCWs' contacts. Twenty-three confirmed cases of infection (0.4% of all HCWs) were reported in the 30-day observation period following implementation of the protocol. This shows that correct management of HCWs' contacts is essential to avoid nosocomial clusters. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Healthcare Infection Society. 2020-07 2020-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7239006/ /pubmed/32445776 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.05.024 Text en © 2020 The Authors 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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Vimercati, L.
Dell’Erba, A.
Migliore, G.
De Maria, L.
Caputi, A.
Quarato, M.
Stefanizzi, P.
Cavone, D.
Ferorelli, D.
Sponselli, S.
Mansi, F.
Tafuri, S.
Prevention and protection measures of healthcare workers exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in a university hospital in Bari, Apulia, Southern Italy
title Prevention and protection measures of healthcare workers exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in a university hospital in Bari, Apulia, Southern Italy
title_full Prevention and protection measures of healthcare workers exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in a university hospital in Bari, Apulia, Southern Italy
title_fullStr Prevention and protection measures of healthcare workers exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in a university hospital in Bari, Apulia, Southern Italy
title_full_unstemmed Prevention and protection measures of healthcare workers exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in a university hospital in Bari, Apulia, Southern Italy
title_short Prevention and protection measures of healthcare workers exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in a university hospital in Bari, Apulia, Southern Italy
title_sort prevention and protection measures of healthcare workers exposed to sars-cov-2 in a university hospital in bari, apulia, southern italy
topic Short Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239006/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32445776
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.05.024
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