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Protection measures against SARS-CoV-2 infection for cytopathology and histopathology laboratories personnel: practical recommendations

In the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, healthcare workers are at high risk to be infected with this new coronavirus, particularly when they handle not only patients, but also their body fluids. In Romania, even though the protective measures to be used by medic...

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Autores principales: Sava, Anca, Costea, Claudia Florida, Turliuc, Şerban, Eva, Lucian, Turliuc, Mihaela Dana, Dumitrescu, Gabriela Florenţa, Dimitriu, Gabriela, Vornicu, Valeriana, Baltag, Liliana, Dabija, Marius Gabriel
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Publicado: Academy of Medical Sciences, Romanian Academy Publishing House, Bucharest 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8343582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34171056
http://dx.doi.org/10.47162/RJME.61.4.09
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author Sava, Anca
Costea, Claudia Florida
Turliuc, Şerban
Eva, Lucian
Turliuc, Mihaela Dana
Dumitrescu, Gabriela Florenţa
Dimitriu, Gabriela
Vornicu, Valeriana
Baltag, Liliana
Dabija, Marius Gabriel
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Costea, Claudia Florida
Turliuc, Şerban
Eva, Lucian
Turliuc, Mihaela Dana
Dumitrescu, Gabriela Florenţa
Dimitriu, Gabriela
Vornicu, Valeriana
Baltag, Liliana
Dabija, Marius Gabriel
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description In the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, healthcare workers are at high risk to be infected with this new coronavirus, particularly when they handle not only patients, but also their body fluids. In Romania, even though the protective measures to be used by medical staff in emergency departments, clinical departments, radiology departments, clinical laboratories and morgues services are well known, there is little information about the protection of medical staff in the laboratories of cytopathology and histopathology. In this article, we will discuss the transmission routes of the new coronavirus, the surfaces it could contaminate in a hospital, as well as the modalities of its inactivation. We will present some guidelines for preparing the pathology departments to face the pandemic situation like the present one. Also, we will point out some possible recommendations/suggestions for protective measures to be taken by laboratory staff during the cytological and histopathological procedures when they manipulate body fluids or surgical samples of patients with suspected or confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Laboratory personnel should be aware that any body fluid or surgical specimen that arrives in the laboratory may contain SARS-CoV-2 and, as such, they should act after new working procedures. We recommend restraint from performing extemporaneous examination (smear and frozen section) and cytopathological examination in laboratories that do not have adequate condition for handling and processing Hazard Group 3 (HG3) pathogens, as SARS-CoV-2. Also, laboratory personnel should pay attention to instruments, technical equipment, or environmental surfaces as these also can be contaminated with the new coronavirus.
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spelling pubmed-83435822021-08-18 Protection measures against SARS-CoV-2 infection for cytopathology and histopathology laboratories personnel: practical recommendations Sava, Anca Costea, Claudia Florida Turliuc, Şerban Eva, Lucian Turliuc, Mihaela Dana Dumitrescu, Gabriela Florenţa Dimitriu, Gabriela Vornicu, Valeriana Baltag, Liliana Dabija, Marius Gabriel Rom J Morphol Embryol Review In the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, healthcare workers are at high risk to be infected with this new coronavirus, particularly when they handle not only patients, but also their body fluids. In Romania, even though the protective measures to be used by medical staff in emergency departments, clinical departments, radiology departments, clinical laboratories and morgues services are well known, there is little information about the protection of medical staff in the laboratories of cytopathology and histopathology. In this article, we will discuss the transmission routes of the new coronavirus, the surfaces it could contaminate in a hospital, as well as the modalities of its inactivation. We will present some guidelines for preparing the pathology departments to face the pandemic situation like the present one. Also, we will point out some possible recommendations/suggestions for protective measures to be taken by laboratory staff during the cytological and histopathological procedures when they manipulate body fluids or surgical samples of patients with suspected or confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Laboratory personnel should be aware that any body fluid or surgical specimen that arrives in the laboratory may contain SARS-CoV-2 and, as such, they should act after new working procedures. We recommend restraint from performing extemporaneous examination (smear and frozen section) and cytopathological examination in laboratories that do not have adequate condition for handling and processing Hazard Group 3 (HG3) pathogens, as SARS-CoV-2. Also, laboratory personnel should pay attention to instruments, technical equipment, or environmental surfaces as these also can be contaminated with the new coronavirus. Academy of Medical Sciences, Romanian Academy Publishing House, Bucharest 2020 2021-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8343582/ /pubmed/34171056 http://dx.doi.org/10.47162/RJME.61.4.09 Text en Copyright © 2020, Academy of Medical Sciences, Romanian Academy Publishing House, Bucharest https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License, which permits unrestricted use, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium, non-commercially, provided the new creations are licensed under identical terms as the original work and the original work is properly cited.
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Costea, Claudia Florida
Turliuc, Şerban
Eva, Lucian
Turliuc, Mihaela Dana
Dumitrescu, Gabriela Florenţa
Dimitriu, Gabriela
Vornicu, Valeriana
Baltag, Liliana
Dabija, Marius Gabriel
Protection measures against SARS-CoV-2 infection for cytopathology and histopathology laboratories personnel: practical recommendations
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title_full Protection measures against SARS-CoV-2 infection for cytopathology and histopathology laboratories personnel: practical recommendations
title_fullStr Protection measures against SARS-CoV-2 infection for cytopathology and histopathology laboratories personnel: practical recommendations
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title_short Protection measures against SARS-CoV-2 infection for cytopathology and histopathology laboratories personnel: practical recommendations
title_sort protection measures against sars-cov-2 infection for cytopathology and histopathology laboratories personnel: practical recommendations
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8343582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34171056
http://dx.doi.org/10.47162/RJME.61.4.09
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