Health Devices. 2004 Feb;33(2):44-53.
Last year, more than 8,000 people worldwide contracted severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), leading to 774 deaths. Although transmission of the disease was quickly controlled, with the outbreak declared over by July, there is concern that SARS could in fact be a seasonal disease and that another outbreak could occur in 2004. In early January, Chinese health officials confirmed the first non-laboratory-related SARS case since the initial outbreak was contained. The threat of another outbreak underscores the importance of having a response plan in place to safeguard the health of your community and your staff. In this article, we discuss the latest information on the risks of acquiring SARS, review recent recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), discuss the role of hospital facility and clinical engineers in SARS preparations, and update ECRI's recommendations for infection control procedures during equipment servicing. (ECRI first addressed this issue in two June 2003 Health Devices Guidance Articles.) In two appendixes to the current article, we present CDC guidance on patient isolation in an airborne infection isolation room and offer a navigational guide to CDC's SARS Web site.
去年，全球有8000多人感染了严重急性呼吸综合征（SARS），导致774人死亡。尽管该疾病的传播很快得到控制，7月宣布疫情结束，但人们担心SARS实际上可能是一种季节性疾病，2004年可能会再次爆发。1月初，中国卫生官员证实了自最初疫情得到控制以来首例与实验室无关的SARS病例。再次爆发疫情的威胁凸显了制定应对计划以保障社区和员工健康的重要性。在本文中，我们讨论了感染SARS风险的最新信息，回顾了美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）最近的建议，讨论了医院设施和临床工程师在SARS防范工作中的作用，并更新了ECRI关于设备维修期间感染控制程序的建议。（ECRI在2003年6月的两篇《健康设备指南文章》中首次探讨了这个问题。）在本文的两个附录中，我们介绍了CDC关于在空气传播感染隔离病房中隔离患者的指南，并提供了CDC的SARS网站导航指南。
