Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America; Department of Emergency Medicine, Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, United States of America.
Am J Emerg Med. 2020 Jul;38(7):1542.e1-1542.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.03.052. Epub 2020 Mar 31.
The outbreak of a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been of concern to health care workers (HCW's) in the emergency department (ED) due to potential exposure and transmission. This case report describes a man who was referred to the ED for abdominal and testicular pain who was subsequently found to test positive for COVID-19. Due to the lack of respiratory symptoms, proper protective equipment (PPE) was not donned, and it led to several patients and health care workers being exposed. Given recent new descriptions of patients who present atypically, full PPE for all patients may be considered as community spread increases.
新型冠状病毒病（COVID-19）的爆发引起了急诊科（ED）医护人员的关注，因为他们可能会接触并传播这种疾病。本病例报告描述了一名因腹痛和睾丸痛而被转至急诊科的男性，随后被发现 COVID-19 检测呈阳性。由于缺乏呼吸道症状，没有佩戴适当的个人防护设备（PPE），导致数名患者和医护人员暴露。鉴于最近有报道称一些患者的表现不典型，随着社区传播的增加，可能需要对所有患者都采取全面的 PPE 措施。
