COVID-19 and the Risk to Health Care Workers: A Case Report

Kangqi Ng; Beng Hoong Poon; Troy Hai Kiat Puar; Jessica Li Shan Quah; Wann Jia Loh; Yu Jun Wong; Thean Yen Tan; Jagadesan Raghuram

doi:10.7326/L20-0175

COVID-19 and the Risk to Health Care Workers: A Case Report

Ann Intern Med. 2020 Jun 2;172(11):766-767. doi: 10.7326/L20-0175. Epub 2020 Mar 16.

Authors

Kangqi Ng¹, Beng Hoong Poon¹, Troy Hai Kiat Puar¹, Jessica Li Shan Quah¹, Wann Jia Loh¹, Yu Jun Wong¹, Thean Yen Tan¹, Jagadesan Raghuram¹

Affiliation

¹ Changi General Hospital, Singapore (K.N., B.H.P., T.H.K., J.L.S., W.J.L., Y.J.W., T.Y.T., J.R.).

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Diabetes mellitus; Health care providers; Hyperlipidemia; Intubation; Noninvasive ventilation; Oxygen; Patients; Pneumonia; Ventilators.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Aerosols
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Health Personnel*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Occupational Exposure*
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Quarantine
Risk Factors
SARS-CoV-2

Substances

Aerosols