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Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Among Coworkers in a Surgical Environment

Health care workers are at high risk for contracting coronavirus disease 2019. However, little is known about the risk of transmission between coworkers. The objective of this study was to determine the risk of transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) between cowo...

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Autores principales: Parkulo, Mark A., Brinker, Todd M., Bosch, Wendelyn, Palaj, Arta, DeRuyter, Marie L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7580669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33413812
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2020.10.016
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author Parkulo, Mark A.
Brinker, Todd M.
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description Health care workers are at high risk for contracting coronavirus disease 2019. However, little is known about the risk of transmission between coworkers. The objective of this study was to determine the risk of transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) between coworkers in a surgical environment. This was an observational study of 394 health care workers in a surgical environment who were exposed to 2 known SARS-CoV-2–positive coworkers. Standard infection precautions were in place at the time of the exposure. All 394 exposed workers initially underwent nasopharyngeal swab testing for SARS-CoV-2 using the polymerase chain reaction technique. Of the original group, 387 were tested again with the same technique 1 week later. Of 394 SARS-CoV-2–exposed health care workers initially tested, 1 was positive. No new positive cases were found on repeated testing of 387 participants 1 week later. The risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a health care unit with universal masking and appropriate hand hygiene is low. This finding should provide some reassurance to surgical practices as they reopen.
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spelling pubmed-75806692020-10-23 Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Among Coworkers in a Surgical Environment Parkulo, Mark A. Brinker, Todd M. Bosch, Wendelyn Palaj, Arta DeRuyter, Marie L. Mayo Clin Proc Brief Report Health care workers are at high risk for contracting coronavirus disease 2019. However, little is known about the risk of transmission between coworkers. The objective of this study was to determine the risk of transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) between coworkers in a surgical environment. This was an observational study of 394 health care workers in a surgical environment who were exposed to 2 known SARS-CoV-2–positive coworkers. Standard infection precautions were in place at the time of the exposure. All 394 exposed workers initially underwent nasopharyngeal swab testing for SARS-CoV-2 using the polymerase chain reaction technique. Of the original group, 387 were tested again with the same technique 1 week later. Of 394 SARS-CoV-2–exposed health care workers initially tested, 1 was positive. No new positive cases were found on repeated testing of 387 participants 1 week later. The risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a health care unit with universal masking and appropriate hand hygiene is low. This finding should provide some reassurance to surgical practices as they reopen. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research 2021-01 2020-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7580669/ /pubmed/33413812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2020.10.016 Text en © 2020 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. 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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