Clinical Recommendations for Epistaxis Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

摘要: Epistaxis is a common complaint in the general population, and its treatment procedure emergency departments. In COVID-19 era, procedures involving airway management are particular risk for health care workers due to high virulence of virus, transmission through aerosol, contagion from asymptomatic patients. this article, we propose simple memorandum clinical recommendations minimize operator infection deriving epistaxis management. The correct use personal protective equipment strict compliance with behavioral guidelines essential reduce potential infection. particular, filtering masks strongly recommended since all patients, including those referring epistaxis, should be treated as being positive department. safety not only safeguard continuous patient but also limit virus transmission.