Risk Factors and Countermeasures of Occupational Exposure of Medical Personnel under COVID-19 Epidemic
10.12026/j.issn.1001-8565.2022.01.15
- VernacularTitle:新冠肺炎疫情防控中医务人员职业暴露危险因素及对策分析
- Author:
Yang FU
1
;
Junling MA
1
;
Lin WANG
2
;
Mei YIN
1
Author Information
1. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China
2. Research Institute of Education Science, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150081, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
COVID-19;
Medical Personnel;
Occupational Exposure;
Psychological Stress;
Medical Violence
- From:
Chinese Medical Ethics
2022;35(1):84-89
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
The COVID-19 is a severe respiratory pathogen infection, showing a distinct "hospital cluster" transmission characteristics. This paper illustrated the concept of occupational exposure and COVID-19. Combined with the actual situation of COVID-19, the infection status of medical personnel in this outbreak was analyzed from three aspects: the transmission risk and infection rate of medical personnel, the clinical characteristics and the undiscovered super-spreader. Through the analysis of the present situation, this paper summarized the possible occupational exposure risk factors of medical personnel in COVID-19 from five aspects: biological occupational risk factors, chemical occupational risk factors, physical occupational risk factors, violence factors and psychological factors. From isolating the source of infection and cutting off the transmission route, the "safety supervisor" mechanism is established to avoid the risks of biological, chemical and physical occupational exposure, from providing professional psychological counseling for medical personnel to reduce their psychological stress, and from improving the relevant legal level to reduce the risk of medical personnel’s violent occupational exposure.
