Recomendaciones para la realización de intervenciones pulmonares durante la pandemia COVID-19

Translated title of the contribution: Recommendations for performing interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sebastián Fernández-Bussy*, Olivia Sánchez, Mihir Parikh, Alichia Paton, Fayez Kheir, Alex Chee, Rachel Martínez, Sebastián Gando, Mario Lanza, Alejandra Canias, Gonzalo Labarca, Marco Antonio Garcia, Roberto Dure, David Abia-Trujillo, Artemio Oscar García, Pablo Rubinstein, Hugo De Oliveira, Javier Flandes, Erik Folch, Adnan Majid

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Coronavirus infection (SARS-CoV-2), is a pandemic disease declared by the World Health Organization (WHO). This disease reports a high risk of contagion, especially by the transmission of aerosols in health care workers. In this scenario, aerosol exposure is increased in various procedures related to the airway, lungs, and pleural space. For this reason, it is important to have recommendations that reduce the risk of exposure and infection with COVID-19. In this document, a team of international specialists in interventional pulmonology elaborated a series of recommendations, based on the available evidence to define the risk stratification, diagnostic methods and technical considerations on procedures such as bronchoscopy, tracheostomy, and pleural procedures among others. As well as the precautions to reduce the risk of contagion when carrying out pulmonary interventions.

Translated title of the contributionRecommendations for performing interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic
Original languageSpanish
Pages (from-to)689-696
Number of pages8
JournalRevista Medica de Chile
Volume148
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2020

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Keywords

  • Bronchoscopy
  • Coronavirus
  • COVID-19
  • Interventional pulmonology
  • tracheostomy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine

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