Infection Prevention and Control for ICU during COVID-19 Pandemic: Position Paper of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Aerosol
COVID-19
Decontamination
Disinfection
Healthcare workers
Infection control practices
Intensive-care
Quarantine
Specimen
Sterilization
Journal
Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine
ISSN: 0972-5229
Titre abrégé: Indian J Crit Care Med
Pays: India
ID NLM: 101208863
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2020
Nov 2020
Historique:
entrez:
23
12
2020
pubmed:
24
12
2020
medline:
24
12
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has very high rates of hospital-related transmission among healthcare workers (HCWs), mandating the need for careful intensive care unit (ICU) designing, optimization of staff resources, implementation of vigorous infection control practices, environmental disinfection, meticulous sample collection, and criteria for staff quarantine. Most of the ICUs are not designed to deal with airborne viral infections and require redesigning for the safety of HCWs and patients. Infection control practices related to the prevention of spread of COVD-19 are unique and are well described. The training of staff on infection control practices reduces the infection rate among HCWs significantly. Adequate staffing not only helps in infection control but also prevents burnout of the staff. In case of infection to HCW, the staff must be assessed systematically, and institute's infection control committee should guide for isolation period as well as return to work based upon standard recommendations. This article focuses on infection control and prevention measures required in ICU during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33354052
doi: 10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23607
pmc: PMC7724928
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Pagination
S280-S289Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020; Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Source of support: Nil Conflict of interest: None
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