COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspective of an Italian Tertiary Care Pediatric Center

Healthcare

Giorgio Perilongo¹  Paola Costenaro²  Carlo Giaquinto²  Daniele Donಠ AnnaMaria Saieva³  Eugenio Baraldi⁴  Liviana Da Dalt⁵  Susanna Masiero⁵  Laura Sainati⁶  Alessandra Biffi⁶  Luca Antoniello⁷  Piergiorgio Gamba⁷ 

[1] Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University Hospital of Padua, Padua, Via Giustiniani 3, 35128 Padua, Italy;Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padua, Via Giustiniani 3, 35128 Padua, Italy;Medical Staff Affairs, University Hospital of Padua, Padua, Via Giustiniani 3, 35128 Padua, Italy;Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padua, Via Giustiniani 3, 35128 Padua, Italy;Pediatric Emergency Department Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padua, Via Giustiniani 3, 35128 Padua, Italy;Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padua, Via Giustiniani 3, 35128 Padua, Italy;Pediatric Surgery Unit, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padua, Via Giustiniani 3, 35128 Padua, Italy;

关键词: COVID-19;    children;    pediatric department;    hospital;    infection prevention and control;   

DOI  :  10.3390/healthcare8030311

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Since February 2020, Italy has been faced with the dramatic spread of novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. This impetuous pandemic infection forced many hospitals to reorganize their healthcare systems. Predicting a rapid spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus within our region, the Department for Women’s and Children’s Health promptly decided (i) to revise the distribution of the clinical areas in order to create both designated COVID-19 and COVID-19-free areas with their own access, (ii) to reinforce infection prevention control (IPC) measures for all healthcare workers and administrative staff and (iii) to adopt the new “double-gate approach”: a phone call pre-triage and nasopharyngeal swab for SARS-CoV-2 detection before the admission of all patients and caregivers. Between 21 February 2020 till 04 May 2020, only seven physicians, two nurses and two of the administrative staff resulted positive, all during the first week of March. No other cases of intra-department infection were documented among the healthcare workers since all the preventive procedures described above were implemented. It is predicted that similar situations can happen again in the future, and thus, it is necessary to be more prepared to deal with them than we were at the beginning of this COVID-19 pandemic.

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