Practical strategies to
reduce nosocomial transmission to healthcare professionals providing
respiratory care to patients with COVID-19
by Ramandeep Kaur,
Tyler T. Weiss, Andrew Perez, James B. Fink, Rongchang Chen, Fengming Luo,
Zongan Liang, Sara Mirza and Jie Li
Critical Care volume 24,
Article number: 571 (2020) Published: 23
September 2020
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an emerging viral
infection that is rapidly spreading across the globe. SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the
same coronavirus class that caused respiratory illnesses such as severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). During
the SARS and MERS outbreaks, many frontline healthcare workers were infected
when performing high-risk aerosol-generating medical procedures as well as when
providing basic patient care. Similarly, COVID-19 disease has been reported to
infect healthcare workers at a rate of ~ 3% of cases treated in the USA. In
this review, we conducted an extensive literature search to develop practical
strategies that can be implemented when providing respiratory treatments to
COVID-19 patients, with the aim to help prevent nosocomial transmission to the
frontline workers.
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