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Covid-19: Guidance for Healthcare Professionals

Guidance for healthcare professionals

These pages will guide you to sources of best available information on Coronavirus / COVID-19 for healthcare professionals.

Infection prevention

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - Infection Control Guidance for Healthcare Professionals about Coronavirus (COVID-19)

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/infection-control.html

The Pan-African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR) - Covid-19 Disease: Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines

https://www.pascar.org/content/page/covid-19-disease-infection-prevention-and-control-guidelines

World Health Organization (WHO)

a. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) technical guidance: Infection prevention and control / WASH

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/infection-prevention-and-control

b. Infection prevention and control guidance - (COVID-19)

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/infection-control.html

International guidance

COVID-19: Interim Guidance on Management Pending Empirical Evidence. From an American Thoracic Society-led International Task Force 

https://www.thoracic.org/professionals/clinical-resources/disease-related-resources/covid-19-guidance.pdf

Department of Health, England – guidance for healthcare professionals 

www.gov.uk/government/collections/wuhan-novel-coronavirus

NICE UK Rapid Guidelines and Evidence Review on COVID-19 

https://www.nice.org.uk/covid-19

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
www.ecdc.europa.eu/en

European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
www.esicm.org/resources/coronavirus-public-health-emergency

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention www.cdc.gov

Interim Clinical Guidance for Management of Patients with Confirmed Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-guidance-management-patients.html

Healthcare Professionals: Frequently Asked Questions and Answers - from Center for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/faq.html

Update for Healthcare Professionals - including infection control and protective equipment

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/hcp/index.html

U.S National Institutes of Health COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines

https://covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/introduction/

Reviews of the evidence

HIQA COVID-19 Health Technology Assessments

https://www.hiqa.ie/reports-and-publications/health-technology-assessments?tid_1=All&field_hta_topics_target_id=112

Cochrane Library systematic reviews and special collections 

Coronavirus (COVID-19): infection control and prevention measures
www.cochranelibrary.com/collections/doi/SC000040/full

Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to critical care
www.cochranelibrary.com/collections/doi/SC000039/full

Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD011621.pub3/full

Statistics and dashboards

Reference

RCSI Library. (2021). Coronavirus - COVID-19 Information Resources. https://libguides.rcsi.ie/covid19/public