id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-309799-fhkbcp7z	Hwang, Yerin	Diabetes and COVID-19: IDF perspective in the Western Pacific Region	2020-06-25		.txt	text/plain	2778	132	46	-Setting up separate inpatient COVID-19 screening "hot" wards that were separate from "cold" wards -Setting up special "fever" clinics, initially attached to a hospital but separate from other services, particularly emergency departments -Novel screening pathways with initially more than less restrictive criteria for screening: an on-line self-registration and self-screening tool, drive-through screening and rapid throughput screening, to allow hospital workers with mild symptoms to be screened and get back to work in 24 hours -Securing adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), including from pre-existing national medical resources stockpiles and providing training on specialized techniques for urgent/safe gowning up -Suspension of non-urgent surgery and procedures in both public and private hospitals with graded reintroduction -Arrangements between State governments and private hospitals for the latter to take COVID and non-COVID patients, if and when required -Upskilling and education of appropriate staff in best practice in procedures such as intubation to minimize risk to health professionals -Call-up of, and short-term registration of, recently retired healthcare professionals and senior medical students -Limitation or suspension of face-face non-urgent medical ambulatory or outpatient services (including outpatient adult and pediatric endocrinology/diabetes services), with a provision of telehealth services that would prevent emergency department presentations/admissions.	./cache/cord-309799-fhkbcp7z.txt	./txt/cord-309799-fhkbcp7z.txt