RESEARCH ARTICLE
Resuming Elective Ophthalmic Surgery during COVID-19 Pandemic
Raed Shatnawi1, *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2021Volume: 14
First Page: 380
Last Page: 387
Publisher ID: TOPHJ-14-380
DOI: 10.2174/1874944502114010380
Article History:
Received Date: 11/11/2020Revision Received Date: 13/6/2021
Acceptance Date: 18/6/2021
Electronic publication date: 17/09/2021
Collection year: 2021
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has become a global health problem.
Purpose:
This paper aims to describe the practical experience of resuming elective ophthalmic surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic in a specialized eye hospital.
Methods:
A descriptive design was conducted in Middle East Eye Hospital, Ammann, Jordan. The current practices were observed to be conducted according to many evidence-based measures, including mainly the American Academy of Ophthalmology guidelines to safely resume ophthalmology service during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Results:
The main strategies that were adopted were related to patient and employee awareness and education, infection control measures, medical instruments, clinical environment, administrative control, patient screening and workflow, and quality control.
Conclusion:
We expect that these strategies could help ophthalmologists globally to resume elective ophthalmic surgery.