About: Novel corona virus, named as SARS-Cov-2 is the seventh coronavirus causing Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) in human. It is one of the very few rare events in history of mankind to affect public health at such an enormous scale globally. Whole world is on standstill with this outbreak, which was declared pandemic by WHO in March 2020. All healthcare workers and especially the ones working in vicinity of nasal/oral regions are high risk group to be infected by this airborne virus. Recently, a 62 years old ENT specialist Liang Wudong died while treating patients with COVID in Wuhan city. Numerous reports of health care workers getting infected while serving their patients are coming from all parts of world. As health care providers are struggling to ensure safety and survival of people, their own wellbeing and preventing further spread of infection is also their responsibility. As head and neck surgical specialties are uniquely vulnerable to infection transmission, this communication highlights various instructions and suggestions given by International & National health agencies to safeguard the patient, surgical team, health workers and community. Though the decision regarding treatment is surgeon’s discretion, we hope these guidelines will help in decision making.   Goto Sponge  NotDistinct  Permalink

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  • Novel corona virus, named as SARS-Cov-2 is the seventh coronavirus causing Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) in human. It is one of the very few rare events in history of mankind to affect public health at such an enormous scale globally. Whole world is on standstill with this outbreak, which was declared pandemic by WHO in March 2020. All healthcare workers and especially the ones working in vicinity of nasal/oral regions are high risk group to be infected by this airborne virus. Recently, a 62 years old ENT specialist Liang Wudong died while treating patients with COVID in Wuhan city. Numerous reports of health care workers getting infected while serving their patients are coming from all parts of world. As health care providers are struggling to ensure safety and survival of people, their own wellbeing and preventing further spread of infection is also their responsibility. As head and neck surgical specialties are uniquely vulnerable to infection transmission, this communication highlights various instructions and suggestions given by International & National health agencies to safeguard the patient, surgical team, health workers and community. Though the decision regarding treatment is surgeon’s discretion, we hope these guidelines will help in decision making.
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