Health care personnel exposure to a patient with asymptomatic SARS-CoV2 infection during a prolonged surgical intervention

There is ongoing debate regarding the role of aerosols in the transmission of SARS-CoV2 in the health care environment. Here, we report a case in which multiple operating room health care providers were exposed to a patient with asymptomatic SARS-CoV2 infection during a prolonged orthopedic surgical...

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Autores principales: Lucar, Jose, Navalkele, Bhagyashri, Becker, Blake P., Reed, Chris D., Parham, Jason
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7273138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32505792
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.05.036
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author Lucar, Jose
Navalkele, Bhagyashri
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spelling pubmed-72731382020-06-05 Health care personnel exposure to a patient with asymptomatic SARS-CoV2 infection during a prolonged surgical intervention Lucar, Jose Navalkele, Bhagyashri Becker, Blake P. Reed, Chris D. Parham, Jason Am J Infect Control Brief Report There is ongoing debate regarding the role of aerosols in the transmission of SARS-CoV2 in the health care environment. Here, we report a case in which multiple operating room health care providers were exposed to a patient with asymptomatic SARS-CoV2 infection during a prolonged orthopedic surgical intervention and had no evidence of COVID-19 during the 14-day post-exposure period. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020-08 2020-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7273138/ /pubmed/32505792 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.05.036 Text en © 2020 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by 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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title Health care personnel exposure to a patient with asymptomatic SARS-CoV2 infection during a prolonged surgical intervention
title_full Health care personnel exposure to a patient with asymptomatic SARS-CoV2 infection during a prolonged surgical intervention
title_fullStr Health care personnel exposure to a patient with asymptomatic SARS-CoV2 infection during a prolonged surgical intervention
title_full_unstemmed Health care personnel exposure to a patient with asymptomatic SARS-CoV2 infection during a prolonged surgical intervention
title_short Health care personnel exposure to a patient with asymptomatic SARS-CoV2 infection during a prolonged surgical intervention
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topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7273138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32505792
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.05.036
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