COVID-19: Board Coaching Series Topic #1 Basic Information IPC Home, Community and Health Care Settings Facilities
COVID-19: Board Coaching Series Topic #1 Basic Information IPC Home, Community and Health Care Settings Facilities
Basic Information
IPC Home, Community and Health Care
Settings Facilities
1. Basic information for covid-19 and IPC strategy
2. Precautions: Hand hygiene, physical distancing,
respiratory hygience
3. PPE
4. Case definitions and management
5. Home quarantine and isolation
6. administrative and environmental controls
7. cleaning and disinfection
8. Linen and waste management
9. Safe management of dead body
CONTENTS
Respiratory
Common cold
Severe disease
BASIC
INFORMATION
FOR COVID - 19
Where Did the Coronavirus Come From?
BASIC
INFORMATION FOR
COVID - 19
Some coronaviruses that infect pangolins are similar to
SARS-CoV-2.
Groups at Risk
Older people
Chronic respiratory disease
Obesity
Diabetes
High blood pressure
Heart disease
cancer
DIAGNOSIS
NO SPECIFIC CLINICAL FEATURES
Headache
Sneezing
Loss of taste and smell
Cough
Shortness of breath, breathing difficulties
Diarrhea, vomiting
Kidney failure
Fever
Chills
Muscle pain
SYMPTOMS
ILLNESS SEEMS TO START WITH A FEVER, FOLLOWED
BY A DRY COUGH AND THEN, AFTER A WEEK,
LEADS TO SHORTNESS OF BREATH AND SOME
PATIENTS NEEDING HOSPITAL TREATMENT
SYMPTOMS
EARLY STAGE
May appear between 2 to 14 days after the
exposure to the virus
People with this symptoms or combinations
of symptoms may have:
Cough
Shortness of breath or difficulty of
breathing
Or at least two of these symptoms:
Fever
Chills
Repeated shaking with chills
Muscle pain
Headache
Sore throat
New loss of taste and smell
SYMPTOMS
SYMPTOMS
*this list of emergency warning signs is not all inclusive. Please
consult the medical provider or supervisor for any other
symptoms that are severe or concerning to you
SYMPTOMS
SYMPTOMS
COVID-19
TRANSMISSION
AND INFECTION
Close spaces with insufficient ventilation
INFECTION
PREVENTION AND
CONTROL (IPC)
Preventing Breaking
PROPERLY CLEANING
AND DISINFECTING
USING PPE
ENVIRONMENTAL
SURFACES
HAND HYGIENE
WHEN TO PERFORM
HAND HYGIENE
PHYSICAL
DISTANCING FOR
ALL
01 02 03
Avoid Stay Wear
• Avoid close contact • Stay home if you feel • Wear face mask (save
including kissing and unwell medical masks for
shaking hands frontliners)
MANAGEMENT OF CONFIRMED,
SUSPECTED, AND PROBABLE
CASES
MANAGEMENT OF
CONFIRMED,
SUSPECTED, AND
PROBABLE CASES
SELF CARE
References:
www.cdc.gov
www.doh.gov.ph
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
www.infectionpreventionandyou.org
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
www.webmd.com
www.who.int
Lectures from https://learn.doh.gov.ph/