PPE or not PPE - that is the question

The world is in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and healthcare workers as well as dentists are having to make every difficult decision about their responsibilities in caring for their patients. Compounding this is the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), which makes patient-centred c...

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Autor principal: D’Cruz, Len
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Opinion
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7243221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32444742
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41415-020-1639-y
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description The world is in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and healthcare workers as well as dentists are having to make every difficult decision about their responsibilities in caring for their patients. Compounding this is the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), which makes patient-centred care ethically more challenging. Our first response to these ethical challenges should be to start with ourselves to make sure we are safe before we think about the patients. This is not the approach we would normally adopt when treating our patients outside of a pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-72432212020-05-22 PPE or not PPE - that is the question D’Cruz, Len Br Dent J Opinion The world is in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and healthcare workers as well as dentists are having to make every difficult decision about their responsibilities in caring for their patients. Compounding this is the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), which makes patient-centred care ethically more challenging. Our first response to these ethical challenges should be to start with ourselves to make sure we are safe before we think about the patients. This is not the approach we would normally adopt when treating our patients outside of a pandemic. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-05-22 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7243221/ /pubmed/32444742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41415-020-1639-y Text en © British Dental Association 2020 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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