China Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery ›› 2020, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (2): 100-104.doi: 10.19438/j.cjoms.2020.02.002

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Instructions for management of oral, maxillofacial trauma during prevention, control stage of the novel coronavirus infection

ZHANG Tian-jia, LIU Ting, LUO Song-yuan, YU Li-ya, XIAO Yan, ZHU Min, ZHANG Shi-lei, WANG Xu-dong.   

  1. Department of Oral and Craniomaxillofacial Surgery, College of Stomatology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology & Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology. Shanghai 200011, China
  • Received:2020-02-24 Revised:2020-02-25 Online:2020-03-20 Published:2020-04-30

Abstract: The outbreak of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus, named corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19), have been spreading to more than 30 countries and regions rapidly during a short period of time. WHO announced that the epidemic situation has constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Efficient infection control can prevent the virus from further spreading, which makes the epidemic situation under control. Due to the specialty of oral and maxillofacial trauma, the risk of cross infection is severe. This paper, based on existing guidelines and published researches mainly discussed the epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 and furthermore provided recommendations on patient's evaluation, procedure for trauma emergency operations and prevention during perioperative period under current circumstance.

Key words: Novel coronavirus, Oral and maxillofacial surgery, Oral and maxillofacial trauma

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