Protection of Health Care Professionals During an Epidemic: Medical, Ethical, and Legal Ramifications

The welfare of health care professionals working in hazardous environments is a concerning issue. Personal protective equipment such as face masks, disposable gowns, hair covers, gloves, and shoe covers is often used to prevent contamination from patient contact and droplets. This is especially rele...

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Autor principal: Guddati, Achuta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7380978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32603309
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/19144
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description The welfare of health care professionals working in hazardous environments is a concerning issue. Personal protective equipment such as face masks, disposable gowns, hair covers, gloves, and shoe covers is often used to prevent contamination from patient contact and droplets. This is especially relevant during an epidemic, when health care professionals are at elevated risk of infection. Failure to provide adequate protection to health care workers during epidemics has medical, ethical, and legal ramifications.
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spelling pubmed-73809782020-08-06 Protection of Health Care Professionals During an Epidemic: Medical, Ethical, and Legal Ramifications Guddati, Achuta Interact J Med Res Viewpoint The welfare of health care professionals working in hazardous environments is a concerning issue. Personal protective equipment such as face masks, disposable gowns, hair covers, gloves, and shoe covers is often used to prevent contamination from patient contact and droplets. This is especially relevant during an epidemic, when health care professionals are at elevated risk of infection. Failure to provide adequate protection to health care workers during epidemics has medical, ethical, and legal ramifications. JMIR Publications 2020-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7380978/ /pubmed/32603309 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/19144 Text en ©Achuta Guddati. Originally published in the Interactive Journal of Medical Research (http://www.i-jmr.org/), 08.07.2020. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Interactive Journal of Medical Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.i-jmr.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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