All India Ophthalmological Society - Eye Bank Association of India consensus statement on guidelines for cornea and eyebanking during COVID-19 era.
Humans
Betacoronavirus
Consensus
Coronavirus Infections
/ epidemiology
COVID-19
Disease Transmission, Infectious
/ prevention & control
Eye Banks
/ standards
Eye Infections, Viral
/ epidemiology
India
/ epidemiology
Ophthalmology
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral
/ epidemiology
SARS-CoV-2
Societies, Medical
Tissue and Organ Procurement
COVID-19
Consensus
cornea guidelines
eye banking
ophthalmology
pandemic
precautions
preferred practice
Journal
Indian journal of ophthalmology
ISSN: 1998-3689
Titre abrégé: Indian J Ophthalmol
Pays: India
ID NLM: 0405376
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jul 2020
Jul 2020
Historique:
entrez:
27
6
2020
pubmed:
27
6
2020
medline:
14
7
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it the huge burden of mortality and morbidity across the world and the added effects of the mandatory lockdown measures to try and control the spread. A number of aspects of healthcare including eye donation and eye collection require adequate safety precautions in place to keep both the involved healthcare workers and patients safe. This paper highlights the consensus-based guidelines by an expert panel on how to restart eye banking and eye collection services and carry out emergency corneal surgeries during this COVID-19 time. These guidelines will be applicable to all eye banks across the country and should help ophthalmologists and eye banking staff to restart eye banking while safeguarding themselves and their patients.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32587148
pii: IndianJOphthalmol_2020_68_7_1258_287498
doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1554_20
pmc: PMC7574107
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Practice Guideline
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1258-1262Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
None
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