Saki Nader, Topsakal Vedat, Amiri Marzieh, Al-Shihaby Wael Jasim, Bayat Arash
Hearing Research Center, Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
Antwerp University Hospital, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Edegem, Antwerp, Belgium, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Med J Islam Repub Iran. 2021 Aug 3;35:99. doi: 10.47176/mjiri.35.99. eCollection 2021.
Since the discovery of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which started in Wuhan, China, the epidemic has not only swept through China but also spread throughout the world in spite of the concerted attempts from the governments to contain it. Thus, prevention and control of COVID-19 infection is very effective in ensuring the safety of medical specialists, health care workers, and patients. Audiology clinics are also crucial in the fight against the infection epidemic, as audiologists provide their diagnostic and rehabilitative services in an environment with different contaminated objects that come in either direct or indirect contact with multiple patients. The current article explains the importance of infection control in audiology and priority setting for audiologic evaluation in COVID-19 pandemic.
自2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）在中国武汉发现以来，尽管各国政府齐心协力试图遏制疫情，但它不仅席卷了中国，还蔓延到了全世界。因此，预防和控制COVID-19感染对于确保医学专家、医护人员和患者的安全非常有效。听力诊所在抗击感染疫情中也至关重要，因为听力学家在一个存在不同污染物体的环境中提供诊断和康复服务，这些物体与多名患者有直接或间接接触。本文阐述了听力学科感染控制的重要性以及在COVID-19大流行期间听力评估的优先事项设定。
