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How to keep patients and staff safe from accidental SARS-CoV-2 exposure in the emergency room: Lessons from South Korea’s explosive COVID-19 outbreak

OBJECTIVES: We report our experience with an emergency room (ER) shutdown related to an accidental exposure to a patient with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who had not been isolated. SETTING: A 635-bed, tertiary-care hospital in Daegu, South Korea. METHODS: To prevent nosocomial transmission o...

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Autores principales: Kim, Yun Jeong, Choe, Jae Young, Kwon, Ki Tae, Hwang, Soyoon, Choi, Gyu-Seog, Sohn, Jin Ho, Kim, Jong Kun, Yeo, In Hwan, Cho, Yeon Joo, Ham, Ji Yeon, Song, Kyung Eun, Lee, Nan Young
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7431852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32729441
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.376