Stepping up infection control measures in ophthalmology during the novel coronavirus outbreak: an experience from Hong Kong

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 258, Issue 5, 2020, Pages 1049-1055

  Lai, Tracy H T ^a,b   Tang, Emily W H ^a,b   Chau, Sandy K Y ^b   Fung, Kitty S C ^a   Li, Kenneth K W ^a,b  

^a UNITED CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b TSEUNG KWAN O HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Coronavirus; COVID 19; Hong Kong; Infection control; Ophthalmology; SARS CoV 2

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROL STRATEGY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DISINFECTION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOSCOPY; ENT EXAMINATION; EPIDEMIC; EXPERIENCE; EYE PROTECTION; FEVER; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HAND WASHING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION CONTROL PRACTITIONER; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; NASAL ENDOSCOPY; NON CONTACT TONOMETRY; OPHTHALMOLOGIST; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT ATTENDANCE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SNEEZING; STAFF TRAINING; SUSPENSION; TEXT MESSAGING; TONOMETRY; TRAVEL; UNIVERSAL PRECAUTION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOMITING; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DEVICES; EYE DISEASE; PANDEMIC; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EYE DISEASES; HONG KONG; HUMANS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; TRIAGE;

EID: 85081587501     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-020-04641-8     Document Type: Article

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