Start Date
5-28-2020 9:00 AM
End Date
5-28-2020 5:00 PM
Description
What’s the Problem?
The COVID-19 Pandemic has highlighted the need for anesthesia providers to decrease workspace contamination, particularly during and after airway management.
Delineation of “clean” and “dirty” spaces in the anesthesia workplace has been historically challenging, but the heightened awareness of microbial contamination presents a new opportunity to effect behavioral change among staff.
Keywords
COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, coronavirus
Included in
Initiatives in Anesthesia Workspace Hygiene During COVID-19: The Gray Airway Basin and the Epic Hand Hygiene Event
What’s the Problem?
The COVID-19 Pandemic has highlighted the need for anesthesia providers to decrease workspace contamination, particularly during and after airway management.
Delineation of “clean” and “dirty” spaces in the anesthesia workplace has been historically challenging, but the heightened awareness of microbial contamination presents a new opportunity to effect behavioral change among staff.
Comments
Presented at the 2020 House Staff Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Conference