SARS-CoV-2 AMONG FRONT LINE HEALTH CARE WORKERS

Objective: To determine clinical presentations and source among severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 positive health care workers of tertiary care hospital. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi, from Mar to Jun 2020...

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Autores principales: Syed Waqar Abbas, Shoaib Ahmed, Syeda Fatimah Zareen, Sadia Fatima, Nusrat Rehan, Wajid Hussain
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:765bcacec4c9442da215174bdd0d80ae2021-12-02T17:16:23ZSARS-CoV-2 AMONG FRONT LINE HEALTH CARE WORKERSdoi.org/10.51253/pafmj.v70i6.47840030-96482411-8842https://doaj.org/article/765bcacec4c9442da215174bdd0d80ae2020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://pafmj.org/index.php/PAFMJ/article/view/4784https://doaj.org/toc/0030-9648https://doaj.org/toc/2411-8842Objective: To determine clinical presentations and source among severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 positive health care workers of tertiary care hospital. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi, from Mar to Jun 2020. Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted by using a questionnaire for risk assessment regarding exposure to Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus and practices of participants. Health care workers who were exposed or had fever, cough, shortness of breath, were asked to undergo semi-quantitative real-time reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction test for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 on nasopharyngeal and oro-pharyngeal swabs. Results: Out of the 92 health care workers who tested positive, 80/92 (86.95%) were males, 12/92 (13.04%) females. Asymptomatic cases were 53/92 (57.60%) and 39/92 (42.40%) were symptomatic, 10/92 (10.8%) of the participants were doctors, 06/92 (6.52%) nurses, 36/92 (39.14%) paramedics and 40/92 (43.47%) were hospital auxiliary staff. Among symptomatic cases, 28/39 (71.79%) developed fever with myalgia, 22/39 fever alone, 23/39 (58.97%) headache, 13/39 (33%) sore throat, 15/39 (38%) runny nose, 11/39 (28.20%) mild shortness of breath on exertion, 7/39 (17.94%) diarrhea and 5/39 (12.82%) experienced loss of taste. Conclusion: As the Corona Virus Disease 2019 pandemic continues, chances of health care workers getting infected are high so it is critical to improve the knowledge of Health care workers. Educational interventions and further studies are warranted in this regard.Syed Waqar AbbasShoaib AhmedSyeda Fatimah ZareenSadia FatimaNusrat RehanWajid HussainArmy Medical College Rawalpindiarticlecovid-19health care workers (hcws)nasopharyngealoropharyngeal swabpolymerase chain reactionpcrMedicineRMedicine (General)R5-920ENPakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, Vol 70, Iss 6, Pp 1864-1869 (2020)
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topic covid-19
health care workers (hcws)
nasopharyngeal
oropharyngeal swab
polymerase chain reaction
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Medicine
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Medicine (General)
R5-920
spellingShingle covid-19
health care workers (hcws)
nasopharyngeal
oropharyngeal swab
polymerase chain reaction
pcr
Medicine
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Medicine (General)
R5-920
Syed Waqar Abbas
Shoaib Ahmed
Syeda Fatimah Zareen
Sadia Fatima
Nusrat Rehan
Wajid Hussain
SARS-CoV-2 AMONG FRONT LINE HEALTH CARE WORKERS
description Objective: To determine clinical presentations and source among severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 positive health care workers of tertiary care hospital. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi, from Mar to Jun 2020. Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted by using a questionnaire for risk assessment regarding exposure to Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus and practices of participants. Health care workers who were exposed or had fever, cough, shortness of breath, were asked to undergo semi-quantitative real-time reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction test for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 on nasopharyngeal and oro-pharyngeal swabs. Results: Out of the 92 health care workers who tested positive, 80/92 (86.95%) were males, 12/92 (13.04%) females. Asymptomatic cases were 53/92 (57.60%) and 39/92 (42.40%) were symptomatic, 10/92 (10.8%) of the participants were doctors, 06/92 (6.52%) nurses, 36/92 (39.14%) paramedics and 40/92 (43.47%) were hospital auxiliary staff. Among symptomatic cases, 28/39 (71.79%) developed fever with myalgia, 22/39 fever alone, 23/39 (58.97%) headache, 13/39 (33%) sore throat, 15/39 (38%) runny nose, 11/39 (28.20%) mild shortness of breath on exertion, 7/39 (17.94%) diarrhea and 5/39 (12.82%) experienced loss of taste. Conclusion: As the Corona Virus Disease 2019 pandemic continues, chances of health care workers getting infected are high so it is critical to improve the knowledge of Health care workers. Educational interventions and further studies are warranted in this regard.
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author Syed Waqar Abbas
Shoaib Ahmed
Syeda Fatimah Zareen
Sadia Fatima
Nusrat Rehan
Wajid Hussain
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title_fullStr SARS-CoV-2 AMONG FRONT LINE HEALTH CARE WORKERS
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