Abstract
Hospital Supportive Services complement the clinical services in any setting. They have a crucial role in mitigation of infection and delivery of safe care to the patients. The spectrum of hospital supportive services encompasses linen & laundry, dietary, Central Sterile Supply Department (CSSD), transport hospital stores, mortuary and engineering services. Each of these services has a significant role to help abort the ‘chain of transmission’ of COVID-19 infection across various patient care areas in the hospital, while providing them supportive services. The overall patient satisfaction greatly depends on the quality of hospital supportive services rendered to him during his stay. These Services usually work at the back end but their contribution in the overall care of a patient is no where less than that of the clinical services.
Highlights
While clinical services of a hospital have to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and flow of COVID-positive patients into makeshift wards and critical care units of the hospital, supportive services and their staff have to gear up to complement the life-saving efforts of front-line providers
A method of decontamination and reuse of filtering face respirators that has been suggested by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to overcome the shortage of these respirators is their extended use or reuse.[4]
Central Sterile Supply Department (CSSD) has to use its expertise in sterilization techniques to make these filtering face respirators, N95 respirators available to the users after re-processing for reuse
Summary
While clinical services of a hospital have to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and flow of COVID-positive patients into makeshift wards and critical care units of the hospital, supportive services and their staff have to gear up to complement the life-saving efforts of front-line providers. Page 1 of 2 not for citation purposes N95 respirators and personal protective equipment (PPE) kits.
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