Airborne precautions recommended in Wuhan, China for bedside fiberoptic bronchoscopy examination of patients with COVID-19

Mei He¹, Jie Xiong², Sufang Huang¹, Yi Bian³, Peng Yan⁴, Sharon R Redding⁵

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¹ Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No.1095 Jiefang Avenue, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, China.
² Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No.1095 Jiefang Avenue, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, China. Electronic address: 914808880@qq.com.
³ Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No.1095 Jiefang Avenue, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, China. Electronic address: bianyi@hust.edu.cn.
⁴ Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No.1095 Jiefang Avenue, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, China. Electronic address: 754903581@qq.com.
⁵ Project HOPE, Millwood VA, USA. Electronic address: shredding@cox.net.

PMID: 32283160
PMCID: PMC7194593
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.03.055

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Airborne precautions recommended in Wuhan, China for bedside fiberoptic bronchoscopy examination of patients with COVID-19

Mei He et al. J Infect. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul;81(1):e75-e77.

doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.03.055. Epub 2020 Apr 10.

Authors

Mei He¹, Jie Xiong², Sufang Huang¹, Yi Bian³, Peng Yan⁴, Sharon R Redding⁵

Affiliations

¹ Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No.1095 Jiefang Avenue, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, China.
² Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No.1095 Jiefang Avenue, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, China. Electronic address: 914808880@qq.com.
³ Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No.1095 Jiefang Avenue, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, China. Electronic address: bianyi@hust.edu.cn.
⁴ Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No.1095 Jiefang Avenue, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, China. Electronic address: 754903581@qq.com.
⁵ Project HOPE, Millwood VA, USA. Electronic address: shredding@cox.net.

PMID: 32283160
PMCID: PMC7194593
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.03.055

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Method to connect bronchoscope and specimen container.

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Airborne precautions recommended in Wuhan, China for bedside fiberoptic bronchoscopy examination of patients with COVID-19

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