Successful management plan of COVID-19 in a pediatric hemato-oncology department: a single-centre experience

COVID-19 pandemic raised concern about management of patients with paediatric cancer. We present the operating system that the Hemato-Oncology Department of the Santobono-Pausilipon Hospital applied. We divided our department in three zones: surveillance and screening; quarantine and COVID free, in...

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Autores principales: Stellato, Pio, Granata, Annalisa, De Matteo, Antonia, Capelli, Carlo, Paparo, Matteo, Parasole, Rosanna, Ricciardi, Immacolata, Tambaro, Francesco Paolo, Leone, Ornella, Quaglietta, Lucia, Menna, Giuseppe, Silvestri, Nicola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
Materias:
Original Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7493071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34192176
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000818
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Sumario:COVID-19 pandemic raised concern about management of patients with paediatric cancer. We present the operating system that the Hemato-Oncology Department of the Santobono-Pausilipon Hospital applied. We divided our department in three zones: surveillance and screening; quarantine and COVID free, in order to screen admitted patients and to reduce the risk of cross infection. From 3 April until 29 May 2020 (56 days), 662 patients and caregivers underwent rapid serological tests for a total of 1397 assays. No patient or parent with SARS-CoV2 infection was found, demonstrating the effectiveness of COVID-19 screening process.

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