COVID-19

UPDATE (17.4.2020): Management of COVID-19 positive or suspect employees involved in care of patients in acute care hospitals – extraordinary situation

in inglese (pdf, 100 KB)

in italiano (pdf, 100 KB)

New (15.5.2020): Prevention & control of healthcare-associated COVID-19 outbreaks

Englisch (pdf, 110 KB)

UPDATE (15.5.20): Misure di prevenzione provvisorie negli ospedali per i pazienti con sospetto fondato di infezione da COVID-19 o infezione confermata

in italiano (pdf, 90 KB)

Supplemento specifico per bambini e adolescenti (in collaborazione con Pediatric Infectious Disease Group of Switzerland (PIGS) (pdf, 90 KB, versione 7.4.2020)

Informazioni su COVID-19 domande specifiche

VIDEO: Example for taking nasopharyngeal swab (LINK to NEJM)

Articoli interessanti: COVID-19

Regularly updated list with recent publications on COVID-19, (LINK to University Hospital Basel website)

Doremalen N, et al. Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1. NEJM. 17.03.2020 (LINK, Commentar Swissnoso)

The Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Emergency Response Epidemiology Team. The Epidemiological Characteristics of an Outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) - China, 2020. CCDC Weekly/Vol.2/No8, 14.02.2020 (LINK)

Battegay M, Kuehl R, Tschudin-Sutter S, Hirsch HH, Widmer AF, Neher RA. 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): estimating the case fatality rate – a word of caution. Swiss Medical Weekly. 07.02.2020 (LINK)

Vuichard D, Widmer A, Krause M. Un nouveau coronavirus se propage: faisons-nous ce qu’il faut? Forum Médical Suisse, 06.02.2020 (LINK)

"Wir dürfen die anderen Patienten nicht vergessen". Interview mit Prof. A. Widmer, Präsident Swissnoso und "Neue Gefahren lösen grosse Ängste aus". Kommentar Prof. H. Sax, Vorstandsmitglied Swissnoso. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), 31.01.2020; Seiten 54-56. (pdf, 177KB)

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