Aerosol containment box for laser treatment of retinopathy of prematurity in COVID-19 pandemic

Type 1 retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) requires emergency intervention and laser is an established modality of treatment. Laser treatment for ROP under topical anesthesia can be considered as an aerosol-generating procedure due to crying that puts health care workers at high risk of COVID-19 transm...

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Autores principales: Sen, Parveen, Jaichandran, V V, Sreenivasan, Janani
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Expedited Publication, Innovation in Ophthalmology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7942090/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33595516
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_3155_20
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description Type 1 retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) requires emergency intervention and laser is an established modality of treatment. Laser treatment for ROP under topical anesthesia can be considered as an aerosol-generating procedure due to crying that puts health care workers at high risk of COVID-19 transmission. Aerosol containment box (ACB) is known to minimize aerosol transmission and there are reports of ROP laser done through incubator. Combining these two ideas, we describe a new application of ACB with suction for laser treatment of ROP thereby, reducing risk to health care team without compromising timely effective, and safe treatment for ROP.
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spelling pubmed-79420902021-03-10 Aerosol containment box for laser treatment of retinopathy of prematurity in COVID-19 pandemic Sen, Parveen Jaichandran, V V Sreenivasan, Janani Indian J Ophthalmol Expedited Publication, Innovation in Ophthalmology Type 1 retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) requires emergency intervention and laser is an established modality of treatment. Laser treatment for ROP under topical anesthesia can be considered as an aerosol-generating procedure due to crying that puts health care workers at high risk of COVID-19 transmission. Aerosol containment box (ACB) is known to minimize aerosol transmission and there are reports of ROP laser done through incubator. Combining these two ideas, we describe a new application of ACB with suction for laser treatment of ROP thereby, reducing risk to health care team without compromising timely effective, and safe treatment for ROP. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-03 2021-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7942090/ /pubmed/33595516 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_3155_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Sreenivasan, Janani
Aerosol containment box for laser treatment of retinopathy of prematurity in COVID-19 pandemic
title Aerosol containment box for laser treatment of retinopathy of prematurity in COVID-19 pandemic
title_full Aerosol containment box for laser treatment of retinopathy of prematurity in COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr Aerosol containment box for laser treatment of retinopathy of prematurity in COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Aerosol containment box for laser treatment of retinopathy of prematurity in COVID-19 pandemic
title_short Aerosol containment box for laser treatment of retinopathy of prematurity in COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort aerosol containment box for laser treatment of retinopathy of prematurity in covid-19 pandemic
topic Expedited Publication, Innovation in Ophthalmology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7942090/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33595516
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_3155_20
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