Keeping Our Patients Safe During COVID-19
April 24, 2020
Treating infectious diseases, including the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), is not new to hospitals, and the guidelines for protecting patients, staff and visitors are comprehensive and evidence-based. 你经常听说COVID-19患者被隔离治疗, 虽然COVID-19隔离的具体因素可能与其他传染病不同, the fundamental practices for isolation treatment do not. 隔离是为了防止传染病在病人和治疗他们的工作人员之间传播, between patients and their visitors, and between patients and other patients, staff members and visitors throughout the hospital.
Treating patients in isolation
重要的是要注意,许多患者使用各种隔离措施进行治疗, for everything from pink eye to COVID-19. 隔离措施根据特定传染病的传播方式而有所不同.
- If the disease is primarily spread through physical contact, 工作人员和访客将遵守专门防止通过直接或间接接触传播的指导方针, which would include things like wearing gloves or a gown.
- If the disease is spread through droplets of mucus or saliva, 工作人员和游客将遵循防止飞沫传播的具体指导方针, 其中包括在与病人密切接触时戴口罩.
- If the disease is spread through airborne particles that can be spread through inhalation, 工作人员和游客将遵循防止通过空气传播的具体指导方针, 其中包括将患者安置在监测负压的房间(以防止通过空气循环传播到医院的其他部分),并在房间内戴上呼吸防护装置.
Safety practices in isolation
隔离治疗患者的基本安全做法是一致的, though, no matter how the disease is spread, and these include:
- Handwashing: 洗手是医院安全和预防感染的基础. 所有工作人员在进出房间时都要洗手或使用洗手液, 在适当的情况下,甚至在同一病人的治疗之间. 即使在房间里戴着手套,也要洗手.
- Patient placement and transport: 隔离的病人通常被分配到单独的房间, 在部门或房间之间运输时,会采取额外的安全预防措施.
- Personal protective equipment: 进入隔离室的工作人员和访客佩戴个人防护装备(PPE)。. 所需的个人防护装备根据特定疾病的传播方式而有所不同, and in the case of COVID-19, typically includes a mask and gown.
- Nutrition, environmental services and more: 送餐或提供清洁服务的工作人员遵守严格的指导方针,并限制不必要的进入隔离室. 这些做法确保患者仍能得到优质的护理和服务,同时限制额外接触和保护个人防护装备的使用.
南田纳西州地区卫生系统的通用口罩
作为医院或门诊的病人或访客, you will be asked to wear a mask, and you will also notice that all of our staff members, in every department, are wearing masks, too. 普遍屏蔽是我们正在采取的一项积极措施,旨在显著减少疾病的潜在传播. This, 我们在每个入境点对所有员工进行分层检查, patients and visitors, 为我们设施里的每个人提供额外的保护.
南田纳西州地区卫生系统如何治疗COVID-19患者
为了在治疗COVID-19患者的同时保护我们的患者和工作人员,我们采取了以下预防措施:
- To protect our community and all who need medical care, 所有COVID-19阳性或疑似患者都被隔离在与医院其他部门隔离的专门病房. 负压空气装置到位,以确保医院这些区域的气流与我们的其他病人分开, visitor and staff areas.
- 因应新冠肺炎疫情宣布全国进入紧急状态, we activated our Emergency Operations Plan on March 13, 2020年,并在STRHS-Winchester开设了一个事故指挥中心. 工作人员为周一至周五上午7:00至下午6:00,周六至周日上午8:00至下午5:00,可致电(931)967 -8208.
- 已经组建了一个COVID-19医务人员工作队,以处理临床护理途径,并确保在这场危机期间医生覆盖的连续性.
- 我们已经24小时增加了额外的安全措施,以确保保护我们的病人和工作人员.
- 我们正在采取额外的预防措施,以保持所有非covid -19区域的清洁. Nursing, 医生和COVID-19患者区的所有额外工作人员只在COVID-19患者区工作,不前往医院的其他区域.
- We have reduced the entry point 所有病人只能进入急诊科, physicians, visitors (if appropriate), and staff.
- 安德顿-史密斯大楼的办公室可以从较低的入口进入, however, 从这个入口进入的人除非从急诊科进入,否则不能进入医院.
- The hospital has implemented a zero-visitor* protocol (*some exceptions may apply (e.g. 儿科患者、产科患者和接受临终关怀的患者).
- 医院、医院门诊部和医生诊所是 screening all individuals who enter our facilities, per CDC guidelines – including patients, physicians, visitors (if appropriate), 供应商和员工基于潜在的呼吸道症状, travel history, and fever.
这些管理传染病的防护措施确保您和您的亲人在需要护理时,我们的医院始终是安全的.