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cord-347381-nn6jqqy5	Mazzola, Santina M.	Maintaining Perioperative Safety in Uncertain Times: COVID‐19 Pandemic Response Strategies	2020-09-29		.txt	text/plain	3413	188	39	Perioperative and organizational leaders at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) were challenged to establish and implement a variety of strategies quickly to help ensure patient and staff member safety during the COVID-19 crisis. At HUP, administrators requested that health care leaders and their teams develop protocols to prioritize patient and staff member safety while also conserving the PPE inventory. The HUP leaders consulted the most recent US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization COVID-19 recommendations before deciding to require all employees, patients, and visitors to wear face masks while inside the health care facility. The leaders directed all perioperative personnel to wear a surgical mask during low-risk AGPs on patients who tested negative for COVID-19, a practice unchanged from the standard process used when preparing the sterile field.	./cache/cord-347381-nn6jqqy5.txt	./txt/cord-347381-nn6jqqy5.txt