Nasa, Prashant;
Azoulay, Elie;
Chakrabarti, Arunaloke;
Divatia, Jigeeshu;
Jain, Ravi;
Rodrigues, Camilla;
Rosenthal, Victor;
... Myatra, Sheila; + view all
(2022)
Infection control in the intensive care unit: expert consensus statements for SARS-CoV-2 using a Delphi method.
Lancet Infectious Diseases
, 22
(3)
E74-E87.
10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00626-5.
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Abstract
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, health-care workers and uninfected patients in intensive care units (ICUs) are at risk of being infected with SARS-CoV-2 as a result of transmission from infected patients and health-care workers. In the absence of high-quality evidence on the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, clinical practice of infection control and prevention in ICUs varies widely. Using a Delphi process, international experts in intensive care, infectious diseases, and infection control developed consensus statements on infection control for SARS-CoV-2 in an ICU. Consensus was achieved for 31 (94%) of 33 statements, from which 25 clinical practice statements were issued. These statements include guidance on ICU design and engineering, health-care worker safety, visiting policy, personal protective equipment, patients and procedures, disinfection, and sterilisation. Consensus was not reached on optimal return to work criteria for health-care workers who were infected with SARS-CoV-2 or the acceptable disinfection strategy for heat-sensitive instruments used for airway management of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Well designed studies are needed to assess the effects of these practice statements and address the remaining uncertainties.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Infection control in the intensive care unit: expert consensus statements for SARS-CoV-2 using a Delphi method |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00626-5 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00626-5 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | COVID-19, HOSPITALS, Infectious Diseases, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Science & Technology, TRANSMISSION |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Experimental and Translational Medicine |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10160342 |
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