Department of Infection Management, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China.
Department of ophthalmology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China.
Ann Palliat Med. 2021 Feb;10(2):2331-2337. doi: 10.21037/apm-20-2424.
Currently, the epidemics situation of COVID-19 is still grim. As a high-risk department, it is necessary to take corresponding prevention and control measures in the ophthalmology department. To guide the ophthalmology department of medical institutions to recover from the post-pandemic period of COVID-19, we designed relevant prevention and control strategies formulated by the National Health Committee, combined with our practical work of hospital pandemic management. The prevention and control strategies contained ward settings, channel design, allocation of protective equipment, screening of hospitalized patients, supervision-guided improvement, ward disinfection, the management of patients and escorts. There are 64 doctors and nurses who had standardized training during the post-pandemic period in the ophthalmology department. A total of 185 patients were admitted to the ophthalmology department of our institution, and 107 operations were successfully performed during that period. We made a follow-up visit two weeks after discharge to ask whether the patients had fever and/or other symptoms and whether he had been diagnosed with a COVID-19 case. Ultimately the ophthalmic ward was free of infection with the novel coronavirus. These showed that our prevention strategies were effective for ophthalmology department to defending COVID-19 in the process of recovering medical services.
目前,COVID-19 的疫情形势依然严峻。作为高风险科室,眼科有必要在疫情后采取相应的防控措施。为指导医疗机构的眼科从 COVID-19 疫情后恢复,我们结合医院疫情管理的实际工作,设计了国家卫生健康委制定的相关防控策略。防控策略包括病房设置、通道设计、防护设备配置、住院患者筛查、监督指导改进、病房消毒、患者和陪护人员管理。在疫情后,眼科有 64 名医生和护士接受了标准化培训。该期间共有 185 名患者入住我院眼科,成功进行了 107 例手术。我们在出院后两周进行随访,询问患者是否有发热和/或其他症状,以及是否被诊断为 COVID-19 病例。最终眼科病房没有感染新型冠状病毒。这些表明,我们的防控策略对眼科在恢复医疗服务过程中预防 COVID-19 是有效的。