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Hi Cate
We have some experience in this area.
Some key points that may assist:* If space persists consider setting up completely separate symptomatic & surveillance testing sub-units to the clinic with separate waiting areas, ingress, registration & exits.
* Try & keep waiting queues outdoors
* Have good spacing between registration clerks so clients are not too close when registering
* Provide adequate barrier screens for clerical staff
* Testing rooms should be enclosed to minimise aerosol spread
* Have a tea room either well away from the clinic, or preferably at a separate site. Any tea room should be used for storing/heating up food only & eating to be done offsite. We have set up an outside marque for this.
* Consider providing a strategically located hydration station far enough away from testing areas but also accessible to staff with an associated PPE station i.e. once N95 comes off for drink, there is HH & new masks adjacent.
* Consider using security to assist with waiting queues
I hope some of this helps.
Happy for you to call me as well.
Cheers
TSDr Tony Skapetis
Clinical Director of Education I Education Unit
Oral Health, Western Sydney LHD
Chair, Western Sydney Local Health District HREC
Clinical Professor
University of Sydney faculty of Medicine and Health
Sydney Dental School
* Westmead Centre for Oral Health, Darcy Road WESTMEAD NSW 2145
* PO Box 533, Wentworthville NSW 2145
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Hi team
Has anyone set up an indoor COVID-19 testing clinic able to let me know our experiences? Weather prevents an outdoor clinic during summer in our jurisdiction.
RegardsCate Coffey
RN BaAScN MPH&TM Grad Cert Infection Control Nursing
Clinical Nurse ManagerCentral Australia Health Service
Department of Health
Northern Territory GovernmentInfection Prevention and Control Unit
Alice Springs Hospital
PO Box 2234, Alice Springs, NT 0871
cate.coffey@nt.gov.aut. 08 8951 7737
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Hi Kylie
This link has useful information.
https://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/coronavirus-and-your-eyes/Cheers
TSDr Tony Skapetis
Clinical Director of Education
Oral Health, Western Sydney LHD
Chair, Western Sydney Local Health District HREC
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Sydney faculty of Medicine and Health
Sydney Dental School
[untitled] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0401-9908Hi everyone,
I’m getting a lot of questions from dentists under Level 3 restrictions with regards to wearing eye sealing goggles instead of your routine safety glasses aka protective eyewear. I think this has stemmed from social media posts of HCWs in Italy having bruised faces after wearing P2s and goggles all day and night.
It appears the terms of goggles/protective eyewear is sometimes used interchangeably. I’d like to ask the group for guidance (please) to reassure dentists that you can’t contract COVID-19 through your eyeballs – and to carry on with your safety glasses.
I know a lot of dentists don’t have goggles and I don’t want to encourage them unnecessarily to try and get them when other healthcare workers may need them more!
FYI – L3 restrictions include performing only urgent and emergency dental care for the community and applying (when necessary) appropriate transmission based precautions for suspected/confirmed COVID-19 cases. This also includes limiting AGPs
Regards,
Kylie Robb
Practice Services ManagerAustralian Dental Association NSW Branch
Level 1, 1 Atchison Street, St Leonards, New South Wales 2065
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