High risk Procedures In ENT amid Covid 19
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High risk Procedures In ENT amid Covid 19
- Examination of the upper aerodigestive tract (nasal cavities, sinuses, oral cavity, pharynx, larynx).
- Operative procedures on the aerodigestive tract – at this time only urgent and emergency cases should be undertaken.
- Interventional outpatient procedures on the upper aerodigestive tract, e.g. all endoscopies, nasal cautery, foreign body removal, biopsies, microbiology sampling.
- Any intervention to patients with airway modifications – tracheostomy tube changes and laryngectomy patients.
- Emergency care to ENT patients: acute tonsillitis, quinsy, epistaxis, foreign bodies, complications of acute sinusitis, other airway emergencies.
- Otologic presentations do not involve the need for direct airway instrumentation but involve close proximity to patients and may provoke aerosol generation, e.g. coughing during micro-suction of ears.
- Neck lump examination may also require similar precautions.
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