2020, Number 3
Biosafety guidelines used in the peripheral dental clinics of the University of Monterrey during the COVID-19 pandemic
Medina ASJ, Salinas NA
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10.35366/94008
Language: Spanish
References: 11
Page: 146-152
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ABSTRACT
The purpose of this article is to inform about the guidelines that the peripheral dental clinics of the School of Dentistry of the University of Monterrey (UDEM) have taken in the face of the current pandemic COVID-19, emerging in the city of Wuhan, China in the past December 2019. These measures arise with the aim of fulfilling biosafety standards that avoid contagion and/or cross contamination between patients, professionals and staff of UDEM dental clinics; Clínica de Prevención Dental (CPD) and Clínica de Atención Dental Avanzada (CADA), which will remain active in situations that require urgent care and postponing routine dental treatments. The protocols to provide urgent care include certain steps to follow from the moment the patient enters the clinic; starting with the review of the electronic medical record through the Atlas.xp platform, followed by the completion of a questionnaire focused on the risk of the disease and culminating with temperature measurement with an infrared thermometer. Patients who do not present symptoms and show a temperature below 37.3 oC may be treated under the application of all established biosecurity measures (personal, equipment and patient protection measures, maintenance of two meters in the waiting room, compliance with partial work times, use of air purifying lamps distributed in the operating rooms of the clinics, assisted or four-hand work with the implementation of absolute isolation in the patient and with the minimum use of the high-speed handpiece). It is also mentioned that after each treatment and at the end of the working day, all areas and surfaces must be sanitized with specific disinfecting substances. For their part, the personnel must wear conventional clothing when leaving the facilities and have carried out adequate hand washing to avoid transmission of the virus as much as possible.REFERENCES