Open AccessCOVID-19 in intensive care. Some necessary steps for health care workers
Author(s) -
Nipun Malhotra,
Nitesh Gupta,
Somya Ish,
Pranav Ish
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.196
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 2465-101X
pISSN - 1122-0643
DOI - 10.4081/monaldi.2020.1284
Subject(s) - covid-19 , communicable disease , health care , intensive care , transmission (telecommunications) , medicine , medical emergency , population , environmental health , business , nursing , intensive care medicine , public health , political science , disease , law , computer science , telecommunications , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Due to the nature of their profession, health care personnel (HCP) have always been easy targets for transmission of communicable diseases like COVID-19. Shielding HCPs is of consequential significance in ensuring continued health care for the whole population in addition to reducing further spread. Close contact, repeated contact and prolonged contact are unavoidable in the intensive care (IC) environment. It is not uncommon for IC-HCPs to get carried away during an emergent situation, such as that posed by a suddenly deteriorating patient, and forgo the protective barriers that protect them from contracting a communicable infection. Some notable precautionary measures are mentioned below. This is by no means an exhaustive list.