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Challenges and Adaptation in Otorhinolaryngology Practice During Pandemic Lockdown: Experience from a Malaysian COVID-19 Hospital
COVID-19 has taken the world by storm: since the first few cases appeared in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and by June 2020 there were more than 10 million cases of COVID-19 cases worldwide. Malaysia had its first case in January 2020 and acted promptly by implementing several drastic measures to co...
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Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8260059/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34285652 http://dx.doi.org/10.21315/mjms2021.28.3.13 |
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author | Sultan Abdul Kader, Mohamed Iliyas Razak, Siti Sarah Ramanna, Vijayaprakas Rao Esa, Nor Kamaruzaman Ahmad, Abdul Razak Mohamad, Irfan |
author_facet | Sultan Abdul Kader, Mohamed Iliyas Razak, Siti Sarah Ramanna, Vijayaprakas Rao Esa, Nor Kamaruzaman Ahmad, Abdul Razak Mohamad, Irfan |
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description | COVID-19 has taken the world by storm: since the first few cases appeared in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and by June 2020 there were more than 10 million cases of COVID-19 cases worldwide. Malaysia had its first case in January 2020 and acted promptly by implementing several drastic measures to contain the disease. Subsequently, the Ministry of Health Malaysia has implemented guidelines and recommendations on the management of COVID-19. The Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (ORL-HNS) provides services for patients with ear, nose, throat, head and neck diseases and provides audiology, speech and language therapy, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate training. As the department’s staff is heavily involved in examinations and interventions of upper aerodigestive tract problems, the challenges are distinctly different from other specialties. This article discusses how COVID-19 affected ORL-HNS services and what measures were taken in Hospital Melaka, Malaysia. |
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spelling | pubmed-82600592021-07-19 Challenges and Adaptation in Otorhinolaryngology Practice During Pandemic Lockdown: Experience from a Malaysian COVID-19 Hospital Sultan Abdul Kader, Mohamed Iliyas Razak, Siti Sarah Ramanna, Vijayaprakas Rao Esa, Nor Kamaruzaman Ahmad, Abdul Razak Mohamad, Irfan Malays J Med Sci Special Communication COVID-19 has taken the world by storm: since the first few cases appeared in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and by June 2020 there were more than 10 million cases of COVID-19 cases worldwide. Malaysia had its first case in January 2020 and acted promptly by implementing several drastic measures to contain the disease. Subsequently, the Ministry of Health Malaysia has implemented guidelines and recommendations on the management of COVID-19. The Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (ORL-HNS) provides services for patients with ear, nose, throat, head and neck diseases and provides audiology, speech and language therapy, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate training. As the department’s staff is heavily involved in examinations and interventions of upper aerodigestive tract problems, the challenges are distinctly different from other specialties. This article discusses how COVID-19 affected ORL-HNS services and what measures were taken in Hospital Melaka, Malaysia. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2021-06 2021-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8260059/ /pubmed/34285652 http://dx.doi.org/10.21315/mjms2021.28.3.13 Text en © Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ). |
spellingShingle | Special Communication Sultan Abdul Kader, Mohamed Iliyas Razak, Siti Sarah Ramanna, Vijayaprakas Rao Esa, Nor Kamaruzaman Ahmad, Abdul Razak Mohamad, Irfan Challenges and Adaptation in Otorhinolaryngology Practice During Pandemic Lockdown: Experience from a Malaysian COVID-19 Hospital |
title | Challenges and Adaptation in Otorhinolaryngology Practice During Pandemic Lockdown: Experience from a Malaysian COVID-19 Hospital |
title_full | Challenges and Adaptation in Otorhinolaryngology Practice During Pandemic Lockdown: Experience from a Malaysian COVID-19 Hospital |
title_fullStr | Challenges and Adaptation in Otorhinolaryngology Practice During Pandemic Lockdown: Experience from a Malaysian COVID-19 Hospital |
title_full_unstemmed | Challenges and Adaptation in Otorhinolaryngology Practice During Pandemic Lockdown: Experience from a Malaysian COVID-19 Hospital |
title_short | Challenges and Adaptation in Otorhinolaryngology Practice During Pandemic Lockdown: Experience from a Malaysian COVID-19 Hospital |
title_sort | challenges and adaptation in otorhinolaryngology practice during pandemic lockdown: experience from a malaysian covid-19 hospital |
topic | Special Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8260059/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34285652 http://dx.doi.org/10.21315/mjms2021.28.3.13 |
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