Guangzhou Daily News (all media reporter He Yingsi) Yesterday, the reporter learned from the official website of the Guangzhou Municipal Market Supervision Bureau that Guangzhou’s local standard “Technical Specifications for Infection Control and Radiation Protection for Radiological Diagnostic Inspection of New Coronary Pneumonia in Medical Institutions” (hereinafter referred to as “Technical Specifications”) Regulations”) will be implemented from March 1. The standard will help reduce the risk of nosocomial infection and radiation risk to medical staff and patients, and improve the quality of radiological diagnostic images.
The “Technical Specifications” stipulates that medical institutions should set up a dedicated radiological diagnosis computer room for medical imaging screening of fever patients in fever clinics, and the computer room is not limited to be set in fever clinics. Medical institutions should reasonably arrange the examination sequence of patients, shorten the waiting time, avoid the gathering of patients in the radiological diagnosis examination site, and ensure that suspected and confirmed cases are waiting separately in batches. Fever patients, suspected cases, and confirmed cases should be guided through the dedicated waiting area and dedicated route by medical staff trained in hospital infection before and after medical imaging examinations are completed.
Medical and technical personnel should wear corresponding protective equipment according to different protection levels, and only after being checked and confirmed by a special person can they enter the polluted area and semi-contaminated area to work. The nosocomial infection protection level of staff is classified as follows: General protection: wear disposable medical surgical masks, work clothes, and strictly implement hand hygiene; first-level protection: wear disposable medical surgical masks, disposable work caps, isolation gowns, and when necessary Wear disposable latex gloves or nitrile gloves, and strictly implement hand hygiene; Secondary protection: medical staff should wear disposable work caps, protective glasses or face shields, medical protective masks, medical Disposable protective clothing or isolation gowns, disposable latex gloves or nitrile gloves, disposable shoe covers and/or boot covers, and strictly implement hand hygiene; Level 3 protection: medical staff perform operations such as sputum suction for suspected or confirmed cases , respiratory sampling, tracheal intubation and tracheotomy, etc., when there is a possibility of respiratory secretions, spraying or splashing of body substances, wear disposable work caps, medical protective masks, protective masks (or full-scale respirator or positive hood), protective clothing, disposable latex or nitrile gloves, disposable shoe covers and/or boot covers, and strict hand hygiene.
Source: Guangzhou Daily