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Social Distancing and Quarantine as COVID-19 Control Remedy
Published in Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, Muhammad Riaz, Sagheer Ahmed, Marius Alexandru Moga, The Covid-19 Pandemic, 2023
Adeel Ahmad, Muhammad Hussaan, Fatima Batool, Sahar Mumtaz, Nagina Rehman, Samina Yaqoob, Humaira Kausar
The separation of infected persons from people who are not infected to minimize disease transmission is known as Isolation [33]. This measure aims to protect non-infected persons from a person sick with a contagious disease. Isolation usually occurs in hospital under intense care settings. People who have no signs of disease but tested positive for Coronavirus will likely to go into isolation. Healthcare workers (HCWs) are advised to take special isolation preventive measures for COVID-19. Almost all the hospitals have special wards for sick persons, but doctors may also recommend the people to isolate at home for mild symptoms of coronavirus disease [34].
Infection prevention and control
Published in Nicola Neale, Joanne Sale, Developing Practical Nursing Skills, 2022
Source isolation is used when the affected person is the potential source of pathogenic organisms, i.e. MRSA, C. difficile, CPE, influenza, and SARS-CoV-2. There are three categories of source isolation: contact, droplet and airborne (Wilson 2019).
Diagnosis and Treatment Model of the COVID-19 Rehabilitation Unit
Published in Wenguang Xia, Xiaolin Huang, Rehabilitation from COVID-19, 2021
On the basis of the implementation of standard prevention, measures such as contact isolation, droplet isolation, and air isolation are adopted. The visitation system is strictly prohibited, and escorts are not allowed. Air purification is required in accordance with the Air Purification Management Regulations.
Data-driven analysis of the simulations of the spread of COVID-19 under different interventions of China
Published in Journal of Applied Statistics, 2023
Ting Tian, Jingwen Zhang, Shiyun Lin, Yukang Jiang, Jianbin Tan, Zhongfei Li, Xueqin Wang
The susceptible individuals (S) are susceptible to infectious disease and could be infected through contact with infections.The infected and infectious individuals without isolation (I) are assumed to be contagious, transmissible, who would be confirmed by testing eventually.The confirmed cases (C) are in isolation and would not transmit COVID-19.The removed (R) individuals would not be infected again, including the infected persons who are cured or dead.
Automated prediction of COVID-19 mortality outcome using clinical and laboratory data based on hierarchical feature selection and random forest classifier
Published in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2023
Nasrin Amini, Mahdi Mahdavi, Hadi Choubdar, Atefeh Abedini, Ahmad Shalbaf, Reza Lashgari
An important weakness of routine rapid triage in a pandemic situation is the increased mortality rate due to missing high-risk patients (Liang et al. 2020). These patients might incorrectly be identified as mild and, without further workup, be advised to take a home-treatment approach. The disease has an unpredictable trajectory where the condition of some patients suddenly becomes critical, surprising even the most skilled physicians; this hampers physicians' performance by limiting their action time window. Furthermore, it has been shown that patients who later become critically ill carry significantly more viral loads even before their condition becomes critical (Siordia 2020). Thus, rapid isolation of high-risk patients is required to decrease infection spread. Our model using mentioned features could alleviate these problems by providing fast and accurate prognosis prediction after the first day of patient admission to support proper resource allocation and decision making and consequently avoid missing high-risk patients.
Bronchoscopy during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Canadian Thoracic Society Position Statement update
Published in Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, 2022
Simon A. Houston, Yusing Gu, Thomas Vandemoortele, Elaine Dumoulin, Ashley-Mae E. Gillson, Chung-Chun Tyan, Lama Sakr, Glenda N. Bendiak, Anne V. Gonzalez, Marc Fortin
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides updated guidance on ending isolation and precautions for persons with COVID-19.3 The recommended duration of isolation depends on the severity of illness, and whether the patient is immunocompromised. Repeat testing and consultation with infectious disease experts may be required in some cases. In general, non-emergent bronchoscopy may proceed once a patient with COVID-19 is no longer considered infectious (i.e., required to isolate or wear a mask) based on the CDC guidelines. For example, an immunocompetent person who is mildly or moderately ill from COVID-19 should wait at least 10 days from symptom onset, and 24 hours since last being febrile before undergoing elective or non-urgent bronchoscopy. Bronchoscopy providers should regularly review this guidance and ensure that their programs are adhering to the most recent recommendations.