Managing a Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Times of COVID-19 Outbreak: The Foch Hospital Experience

Departments of Gynecology and Obstetrics, as other departments, were faced with a major challenge at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fast restructuring was necessary in order to provide the means for COVID-related care. In this article we share our 1-year experience in reshaping our activitie...

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Autores principales: Murtada, Rouba, Carbonnel, Marie, Revaux, Aurélie, Favre-Inhofer, Angeline, Ayoubi, Jean-Marc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8076786/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33928113
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsurg.2021.564145
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description Departments of Gynecology and Obstetrics, as other departments, were faced with a major challenge at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fast restructuring was necessary in order to provide the means for COVID-related care. In this article we share our 1-year experience in reshaping our activities, managing healthcare workers and securing a pathway for pregnant patients, including potential, and confirmed COVID-19 cases. Priorities were set on ensuring patients' and healthcare workers' safety. Key containment measures included facemasks, systematic screening, dedicated spaces for COVID-19 cases with reinforced measures and vaccination campaign.
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spelling pubmed-80767862021-04-28 Managing a Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Times of COVID-19 Outbreak: The Foch Hospital Experience Murtada, Rouba Carbonnel, Marie Revaux, Aurélie Favre-Inhofer, Angeline Ayoubi, Jean-Marc Front Surg Surgery Departments of Gynecology and Obstetrics, as other departments, were faced with a major challenge at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fast restructuring was necessary in order to provide the means for COVID-related care. In this article we share our 1-year experience in reshaping our activities, managing healthcare workers and securing a pathway for pregnant patients, including potential, and confirmed COVID-19 cases. Priorities were set on ensuring patients' and healthcare workers' safety. Key containment measures included facemasks, systematic screening, dedicated spaces for COVID-19 cases with reinforced measures and vaccination campaign. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8076786/ /pubmed/33928113 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsurg.2021.564145 Text en Copyright © 2021 Murtada, Carbonnel, Revaux, Favre-Inhofer and Ayoubi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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