Preliminary experience of management and standardised procedure of department of trauma and microsurgery during the outbreak of COVID-19 / 中华显微外科杂志
Chinese Journal of Microsurgery
; (6): 112-116, 2020.
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ABSTRACT
Objective:To summarize the preliminary experience in ward management, medical protection, standardised diagnosis and treatment procedures in trauma microsurgery during the outbreak of COVID-19.Methods:Taking an example from the Department of Trauma and Microsurgery at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, the orthopedic patients and medical staff with COVID-19 admitted from Decemberm 31, 2019 to March 1, 2020, in-cluding clinical diagnosis and confirmed cases, were analyzed retrospectively. General information, including age, gen- der, basic diseases, contact history, symptoms, lung CT and prognosis, were collected and analysed preliminarily. On January 20, 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak was confirmed as "human to human transmission". COVID-19 infection of patients and medical staff in the wards were analysed, through the update of protection awareness and control measures. Department management, medical protection and standardized control procedures of trauma microsurgery were explored.Results:Five cases with clinical diagnosis or confirmed COVID-19 were included. One was inpatient and the rest 4 were medical staff, aged 25-81 years, 3 with confirmed and 2 with clinical diagnosis of COVID-19. After the treatment by specialists from Department of Infectious Disease and Department of Respiratory Disease, 4 of infected persons were cured and 1 died. Since January 20, 2020, when it was clear that the virus transmitted to people, there was no new case of infection among the medical staff and inpatients after the multidisciplinary collaboration in the ward prevention and control procedures were standardized and took in action.Conclusion:The spread of the COVID-19 can be effectively controlled by standardised diagnosis and treatment procedurs in the word of trauma microsurgery.
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Zh
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Chinese Journal of Microsurgery
Year:
2020
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Article