Open AccessContainment of a Large SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak Among Healthcare Workers in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Author(s) -
R.L. Knoll,
Jonas Klopp,
Gloria Bonewitz,
Britta Gröndahl,
Katja Hilbert,
Wolfgang Kohnen,
K. Weise,
Bodo Plachter,
Walter Hitzler,
Frank Kowalzik,
Stefan Runkel,
Fred Zepp,
Julia Winter,
Maximiliano L. Cacicedo,
Stephan Gehring
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the pediatric infectious disease journal/the pediatric infectious disease journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1532-0987
pISSN - 0891-3668
DOI - 10.1097/inf.0000000000002866
Subject(s) - medicine , outbreak , infection control , health care , pandemic , pediatric intensive care unit , emergency medicine , intensive care , psychological intervention , transmission (telecommunications) , quarantine , intensive care unit , medical emergency , personal protective equipment , covid-19 , intensive care medicine , nursing , virology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , engineering , pathology , electrical engineering , economics , economic growth
Healthcare workers (HCWs) are particularly exposed SARS-CoV-2 because they are critical in preventing viral transmission and treating COVID-19 patients. Within HCWs, personnel of intensive care units (ICUs) are at the forefront of treating patients with a severe course of COVID-19 infection and therefore represent an extremely vulnerable group. Thus, our objective is to contribute to establish means of infection control protecting HCWs in the frontline of the current pandemic.