Prashant Nasa, Elie Azoulay, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Jigeeshu V Divatia, Ravi Jain, Camilla Rodrigues, Victor D Rosenthal, Waleed Alhazzani, Yaseen M Arabi, Jan Bakker, Matteo Bassetti, Jan De Waele, George Dimopoulos, Bin Du, Sharon Einav, Laura Evans, Simon Finfer, Claude Guérin, Naomi E Hammond, Samir Jaber, Ruth M Kleinpell, Younsuck Koh, Marin Kollef, Mitchell M Levy, Flavia R Machado, Jordi Mancebo, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Mervyn Mer, Michael S Niederman, Paolo Pelosi, Anders Perner, John V Peter, Jason Phua, Lise Piquilloud, Mathias W Pletz, Andrew Rhodes, Marcus J Schultz, Mervyn Singer, Jéan-François Timsit, Balasubramanian Venkatesh, Jean-Louis Vincent, Tobias Welte, Sheila N Myatra
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, health-care workers and uninfected patients in intensive care units (ICUs) are at risk of being infected with SARS-CoV-2 as a result of transmission from infected patients and health-care workers. In the absence of high-quality evidence on the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, clinical practice of infection control and prevention in ICUs varies widely. Using a Delphi process, international experts in intensive care, infectious diseases, and infection control developed consensus statements on infection control for SARS-CoV-2 in an ICU...
March 2022: Lancet Infectious Diseases