COVID-19: Hospital Preparedness and Planning: Difference between revisions
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** Home care does not mean being out in the parks with other groups of people | ** Home care does not mean being out in the parks with other groups of people | ||
** Contact your supervisor: due to expected HCW shortages, minor symptoms may be allowed to continue working with adequate PPE to prevent infection spread | ** Contact your supervisor: due to expected HCW shortages, minor symptoms may be allowed to continue working with adequate PPE to prevent infection spread | ||
==Contact with Patients at Risk/Persons Under Investigation== | |||
===Recommended PPE=== | |||
''Contact and droplet precautions including eye protection'' | |||
* Droplet = surgical mask, eye protection | |||
* Contact = gown and gloves | |||
**If gowns in short supply, consider reserving for PUIs and/or aerosol-generating procedures | |||
*Negative pressure room preferred may be prefered for PUIs, but not required | |||
;See video below indicates the proper order for donning and doffing PPE for clinical evaluation of a patient | |||
===Patients and Procedures Included in this Category=== | |||
*General care of PUI patients | |||
*Collection of nasopharyngeal swab specimens | |||
==Field Hospitals== | ==Field Hospitals== | ||
Revision as of 15:20, 11 April 2020
General Measures
- Exercise general infection precautions
- Person-to-person transmission occurs with close contact (6 feet)
- Direct Transmission: contact with mucous membranes or respiratory droplets
- Indirect Transmission: cough —> secretions left on surface —> 2nd person touches surface secretions and touches face & mucous membranes
- Hygiene General Recommendations
- Avoid touching your face
- Frequent Handwashing
- Alcohol based hand sanitizer
- Diligent hand wasing
- 20 seconds minimum
- Image shows commonly forgotten areas: thumb (ulnar aspect), fingertips, WRIST (Borrowed from WHO Hand Hygiene for Healthcare)
- Wear a mask if you develop respiratory symptoms (fever, cough, rhinorrhea, congestion) to prevent spread
- Avoid unnecessary travel
- Stay home if symptomatic
- Home care does not mean being out in the parks with other groups of people
- Contact your supervisor: due to expected HCW shortages, minor symptoms may be allowed to continue working with adequate PPE to prevent infection spread
Contact with Patients at Risk/Persons Under Investigation
Recommended PPE
Contact and droplet precautions including eye protection
- Droplet = surgical mask, eye protection
- Contact = gown and gloves
- If gowns in short supply, consider reserving for PUIs and/or aerosol-generating procedures
- Negative pressure room preferred may be prefered for PUIs, but not required
- See video below indicates the proper order for donning and doffing PPE for clinical evaluation of a patient
Patients and Procedures Included in this Category
- General care of PUI patients
- Collection of nasopharyngeal swab specimens