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- Title
Laryngoscopic Examination During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Turkish Voice Speech and Swallowing Disorders Society and Turkish Professional Voice Society Recommendations.
- Authors
Çobanoğlu, H. Bengü; Enver, Necati; Akbulut, Sevtap; Atmış, E. Özlem; Birkent, Hakan; Büyükatalay, Çiler; Demirhan, Erhan; Denizoğlu, İlter; Haşimli, Ramil; Korkmaz, Müge Özçelik; Özgürsoy, Selmin Karataylı; Öztürk, Kayhan; Paltura, Ceki; Şirin, Seher; Tatar, Emel Çadallı; Tüzüner, Arzu; Yelken, Kürşat; Coşkun, H. Hakan; Oğuz, Haldun; Öz, Ferhan
- Abstract
COVID-19 is highly transmissible and spreads rapidly in the population. This increases the occupational risk for health care workers. In otolaryngology clinic practice, patients with upper respiratory tract infection symptoms are common. Also, routine head and neck examinations such as oral cavity examination, nasal/nasopharyngeal examination, or video laryngostroboscopic evaluation are highly risky because of the aerosol formation. To emphasize this issue, two leading otolaryngology organizations in Turkey; 'Voice Speech and Swallowing Disorders Society', and 'Professional Voice Society' gathered a task force. This task force aimed to prepare a consensus report that would provide practical recommendations of the safety measurements during routine clinical care of laryngology patients. To fulfill this, universal aim, on the 2nd and 9th of May 2020, two web-based meetings were conducted by 20 expert physicians. This eighteen items list was prepared as an output.
- Subjects
TURKEY; COVID-19 pandemic; MEDICAL personnel; SPEECH disorders; RESPIRATORY infections; PROFESSIONAL associations; BOLUS radiotherapy
- Publication
Turkish Archives of Otolaryngology / Türk Otolarengoloji Arsivi, 2020, Vol 58, Issue 4, p274
- ISSN
0304-4793
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5152/tao.2020.5719