To Protect Health Care Workers Better, To Save More Lives With COVID-19
Weiyun Chen, Yuguang Huang, Weiyun Chen, Yuguang Huang
Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has thus far caused a total of 81,747 confirmed cases with 3283 deaths in China and more than 370,000 confirmed cases including over 16,000 deaths around the world by March 24, 2020. This issue has received extensive attention from the international community and has become a major public health priority. As the pandemic progresses, it is regrettable to know the health care workers, including anesthesiologists, are being infected constantly. Therefore, we would like to share our firsthand practical experience and perspective in China, focusing on the personal protection of health care workers and the risk factors related to their infection, based on the different stages of the COVID-19 epidemic in China.
Conflict of interest statement
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Figures
References
- Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Emergency Response Epidemiology Team. The epidemiological characteristics of an outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) in China. Chinese J Epidemiol. 2020;41:145–151(in Chinese).
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report - 64. Available at: . Accessed March 25, 2020.
- Li Q, Guan X, Wu P, et al. Early transmission dynamics in Wuhan, China, of novel coronavirus–infected pneumonia. N Engl J Med. 2020;382:1199–1207.
- Situation report of COVID-19 (Jan 22) from the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China. Available at: . Accessed March 25, 2020.
- Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report - 3 23 January 2020. Available at: . Accessed March 25, 2020.
- Guan WJ, Ni ZY, Hu Y, et al. Clinical characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China. N Engl J Med. 2020 February 28 [Epub ahead of print].
- Wang D, Hu B, Hu C, et al. Clinical characteristics of 138 hospitalized patients with 2019 novel coronavirus–infected pneumonia in Wuhan, China. JAMA. 2020 February 7 [Epub ahead of print].
- Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report - 11. Available at: . Accessed March 25, 2020.
- Situation report of COVID-19 (Feb 13) from the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China. Available at: . Accessed March 25, 2020.
- Chen X, Liu Y, Gong Y, et al. Perioperative management of patients infected with the novel coronavirus: recommendation from the Joint Task Force of the Chinese Society of Anesthesiology and the Chinese Association of Anesthesiologists. Anesthesiology. 2020 March 19 [Epub ahead of print].
- Meng L, Qiu H, Wan L, et al. Intubation and ventilation amid the COVID-19 outbreak: Wuhan’s experience. Anesthesiology. 2020 March 19 [Epub ahead of print].
- Situation report of COVID-19 (Mar 24) from the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China. Available at: . Accessed March 25, 2020.
Source: PubMed