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ACEP COVID-19 Field Guide

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How COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases Move Within a Hospital

Triage

Hospital flow — how patients and health care workers (HCWs) move through the hospital to receive and provide care, respectively — should be optimized, especially when providing care to patients with infectious diseases. The goal of hospital flow optimization is to protect HCWs, so they can keep seeing patients rather than becoming patients themselves. The hospital flow optimization process starts by examining how respiratory diseases move within a hospital and then designating areas as screening areas and lower-, moderate-, and high-risk treatment areas (Figure 5.1).

Figure 5.1 How COVID-19 moves within a hospital. Credit: Jung K, Li R, Ng A, et al. How hospitals can protect frontline healthcare workers from COVID-19: lessons from successful model countries. Published April 2, 2020.

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Characteristics of COVID-19 Variants and Mutants

Characteristics of COVID-19 Variants and Mutants

The American College of Emergency Physicians Guide to Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

Patient Presentation

Signs and Symptoms

Author: Mark Hauswald, MS, MD, FACEP, Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine, Past Associate Dean ...

Assessment

Laboratory Abnormalities

Author: Mark Hauswald, MS, MD, FACEP, Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine, Past Associate Dean ...

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