2020, Number 3
COVID-19 screening, experience of a management strategy for the protection of health personnel at IMIEM
Alcántara DJRR, Pérez SM, Ramírez HMDG, Medina SMES, Arellano CR, Miranda MC
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10.35366/104806
Language: Spanish
References: 6
Page: 111-118
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ABSTRACT
A management strategy of Tamizaje COVID-19 was implemented to detect in a timely manner positive cases of this disease among the staff of the Maternal Children's Institute of the State of Mexico (IMIEM) in order to isolate them to their homes and thus prevent them from being a source of contagion for other of their co-workers, for people with which they have frequent institutional relationships or for members of their families, therefore, it could be helped to break the chain of transmission within the institution. Screening consisted of random PCR testing to detect SARS-CoV-2 virus, in the period from March 18 (the date on which the first confirmed case of COVID was recorded in a patient at the Hospital for the Child) and October 31, 2020. All cases were recorded in databases of the medical units that make up the IMIEM, to the asymptomatic cases that were positive, they were sent to their homes for 14 days to perform office work at home, supported by commission or disability offices by the medical service provider unit; Institute of Social Security of the State of Mexico and Municipalities (ISSEMyM); where they also received the respective medical treatment. The screening strategy proved to be of the greatest institutional benefit and to its staff, because random diagnostic testing proved useful; of the 838 tests conducted, 36.7% had a positive result. For IMIEM, as an institution providing health services to an open population, this rate of positivity in asymptomatics can be considered a priori as expected, since there is no evidence of how much the expected range of infections is in hospital staff, considering that international literature mentions that one of the characteristics of COVID-19 is the lack of symptomatology between 30 and 40% of the infected. Under this virtue, the results of the study benefited the public servants of the IMIEM, being also a successful, anticipatory management strategy, which must be replicated in similar situations.REFERENCES