{"id":1767,"date":"2020-10-23T09:55:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T16:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2020-10-26T10:04:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T17:04:22","slug":"sars-cov-2-surveillance-and-exposure-in-the-perioperative-setting-with-universal-testing-and-personal-protective-equipment-ppe-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/23\/sars-cov-2-surveillance-and-exposure-in-the-perioperative-setting-with-universal-testing-and-personal-protective-equipment-ppe-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS CoV-2 Surveillance and Exposure in the Perioperative Setting with Universal Testing and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Universal PCR-based surveillance testing for SARS-CoV-2 before surgeries or procedures at a tertiary care center in New York City identified 65 patients (0.6%) were positive out of 11,540 patients tested. The proportion of tests that were positivity peaked at 4.3% and fell below 0.3% after April 2020. Three of the 65 individuals who tested positive were pre-symptomatic, and 38 were asymptomatic. Five patients newly tested positive in the immediate post-operative period, exposing 82 employees with one case of probable transmission (1.2%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aslam et al. (Oct 22, 2020). SARS CoV-2 Surveillance and Exposure in the Perioperative Setting with Universal Testing and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Policies. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1607\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1607<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal PCR-based surveillance testing for SARS-CoV-2 before surgeries or procedures at a tertiary care center in New York City identified 65 patients (0.6%) were positive out of 11,540 patients tested. The proportion of tests that were positivity peaked at 4.3% and fell below 0.3% after April 2020. Three of the 65 individuals who tested positive&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/23\/sars-cov-2-surveillance-and-exposure-in-the-perioperative-setting-with-universal-testing-and-personal-protective-equipment-ppe-policies\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54,43],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-setting","tag-usa","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}