Recommendations of the Main Board of the Polish Society of Otorhinolaryngologists, Head and Neck Surgeons for providing services during the COVID-19 pandemic for outpatient and hospital practices

• Authors: Małgorzata Wierzbicka , Kazimierz Niemczyk , Ewa Jaworowska , Paweł Burduk , Jacek Składzień , Witold Szyfter , Jarosław Markowski

Abstracts

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Recommendations of the Main Board of the Polish Society of Otorhinolaryngologists, Head and Neck Surgeons for providing services during the COVID-19 pandemic constitute the guidance to outpatient and hospital practices in all cases where contact with a patient whose status of COVID-19 is unknown. They have been created based on world publications and recommendations due to the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic. Justification for suspension of planned provision of services in the first phase of a pandemic was presented. The indication of the best medical practices for the time of stabilization, but with the persistence of the risk of COVID-19 infection in the population are discussed. The possibility of providing services in the following months of the pandemic is important. We provide the rationale for launching medical activities and indicate optimal practices until the consolidation of SARS COV-2 prevention and treatment methods.

Keywords

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COVID-19; epidemy; head & neck; outpatient; surgery

• Journal: Otolaryngologia Polska
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 74(3)
• Pages: 1-5

Dates

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2020-05-04

Contributors

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Małgorzata Wierzbicka

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Kazimierz Niemczyk

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Ewa Jaworowska

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Paweł Burduk

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Jacek Składzień

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Witold Szyfter

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Jarosław Markowski

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0014.1320