scholarly journals Twenty Months Into the Pandemic: No SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Health Care Workers Managing COVID-19 Cases in Bhutan

2021 ◽  
pp. 101053952110627
Author(s):  
Tshokey Tshokey ◽  
Chimi Lhamu ◽  
Pem Chuki ◽  
Thinley Pelzang ◽  
Karma Gyeltshen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Small Country ◽  
International Reporting ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Repeated Training

There is no international reporting of SARS-CoV-2 infections in health care workers (HCWs). Estimates suggest that a HCW dies every thirty minutes from COVID-19. This worsened the shortages and burnout of HCWs worldwide. Twenty months into the pandemic, Bhutan recorded over 2600 COVID-19 positive cases and three deaths. About 906 HCWs were directly involved in managing these laboratory confirmed cases but no infections occured amongst this group. This zero infection was possible through the clustered management of positive cases in four national COVID-19 centers, strategic deployment of HCWs, the uninterrupted provision of quality personal protectiPPE and repeated training on the correct use of PPE. This is an exemplary achievement for a small country with limited expertise and resources.

scholarly journals A Practical Guide to a Safe Sequence of Donning and Doffing of Personal Protective Equipment in Relation to COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 61-63
Author(s):  
Vijay Samuel Richard ◽  
Muralidhar Kanchi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Hand Hygiene ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Personal Protective Equipment ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Repeated Training ◽  
Full Body

AbstractWhen caring for patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), especially when involved in procedures that generate aerosol, personal protective equipment (PPE) with full-body coverage is recommended. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasizes and recommends the following principles with regard to donning and doffing of PPE: (1) training and education (rigorous and repeated training of the health care workers [HCWs]), (2) all HCWs must exhibit competency in the PPE donning and doffing, and (3) PPE doffing should be done in a manner that prevents self-contamination or self-inoculation with contaminated PPE or hands (remove the most contaminated PPE items first, perform hand hygiene at each stage of doffing, and discard disposable items in containers for biomedical waste).

Organizational Factors and Health Care Workers' Physical Safety

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Lipscomb ◽  
Jeanne Geiger-Brown ◽  
Katherine McPhaul ◽  
Karen Calabro
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Care Workers

Workplace verbal abuse and risk of occupational injury among health care workers

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika L. Sabbath ◽  
Cassandra Okechukwu ◽  
David Hurtado ◽  
Glorian Sorensen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Occupational Injury ◽  
Verbal Abuse ◽  
Care Workers

86. Engineering Control to Prevent the Spread of Tuberculosis Among Health Care Workers in Thailand

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.A. Jensen ◽  
W. Uthaivorawit ◽  
D. Garrett ◽  
P. Zuber ◽  
K. Limpakarnjanarat
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Engineering Control ◽  
Care Workers
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