Risk of COVID‐19 infection among mobile extracorporeal membrane oxygenation team

Rabee Tawel; Lubna Altawil; Sunil Hassan Koya; Hani Jaouni; Guillaume Alinier; Abdulqadir J. Nashwan; Ahmed Labib

doi:10.1002/hsr2.981

Risk of COVID‐19 infection among mobile extracorporeal membrane oxygenation team

Rabee Tawel, Lubna Altawil, Sunil Hassan Koya, Hani Jaouni, Guillaume Alinier, Abdulqadir J. Nashwan, Ahmed Labib

School of Health and Social Work

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BACKGROUND AND AIM: The transport of coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a challenging situation, especially for healthcare workers (HCWs), due to the risk of cross-infection. Hence, certain precautions are needed for their safety. The study aims to evaluate the risk of COVID-19 transmission to HCWs who transport COVID-19 patients on ECMO device.

METHODS: A retrospective review of adult patients with COVID-19 infection supported with ECMO and transported by ground route to the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at Hamad General Hospital (HGH) and a survey of HCWs involved in those cases.

RESULTS: A total of 63 HCWs of the mobile ECMO team were exposed to COVID-19-positive patients on 199 occasions. HCWs exposure time was nearly 110 h, and the total transport distance was 1018 km. During the study period, only two of the mobile ECMO HCWs tested positive for COVID-19. There was zero incidence of transfer-associated injuries or accidents to HCWs.

CONCLUSIONS: The risk of COVID-19 cross-infection to the mobile ECMO team seems to be very low, provided that strict infection prevention and control measures are applied.

Original language	English
Article number	e981
Pages (from-to)	e981
Number of pages	7
Journal	Health Science Reports
Volume	6
Issue number	1
Early online date	8 Dec 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.981
Publication status	Published - 31 Jan 2023

Keywords

ORIGINAL RESEARCH
coronavirus disease‐2019
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
healthcare workers
mobile ECMO
transmission
transport
coronavirus disease-2019

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