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Article: Treating patients with smallpox in the operating room.
- Article from:
- AORN Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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Recent events around the world have emphasized the need for policies to deal with biological threats, including smallpox. Developing OR guidelines and suggested courses of action to take when dealing with patients who have smallpox is an important step in establishing an emergency preparedness manual.
When administrators at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, identified the need for a policy for handling patients with smallpox in the OR, they could find no existing written guidelines or policies. Students in a perioperative nursing course at the hospital were given the assignment of creating a template policy for caring for patients with smallpox in ...