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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2003, Vol. 90, No. 6 715-718
© 2003 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia

I. Anaesthesia and SARS

Damon Kamming1, Michael Gardam2 and Frances Chung3

1 Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Anesthesia, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network 2 Director, Infection Prevention and Control, Medical Director, Tuberculosis Clinic, University Health Network 3 Medical Director, Ambulatory Surgical Unit and Combined Surgical Unit, Professor, Department of Anaesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, 399 Bathurst Street, EC 2–046, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 2S8

Corresponding author. E-mail: frances.chung@uhn.on.ca

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The epicentre of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in North America was Toronto in Canada. The outbreak brought the healthcare system of the city to a standstill for 4 weeks. Health authorities placed 8000 people in quarantine. Two hundred and sixty-seven people with suspected or probable SARS were admitted to 17 different hospitals. Twenty-one deaths have occurred at the time of writing. Over half of those infected have been frontline healthcare workers, including three anaesthetists and one intensivist.1 As specialists in airway management, anaesthetists are routinely exposed to patients’ respiratory secretions and are at high risk of contracting SARS from infected patients. This editorial provides suggestions on how to minimize this risk by improved infection control.

Infection control in anaesthesia

SARS is a highly infectious disease probably transmitted by a novel coronavirus via contact or droplet spread with substantial morbidity and mortality. It is an enveloped RNA virus and is therefore sensitive . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Hand washing
Gloves
Face Masks
Extra protection
The SARS patient

Powered respirator
Intubating a SARS patient
Operating rooms

Intensive care

Conclusions

Appendix

Protective equipment

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