The Wall Mount Cough and Sneeze Protection Center is lockable while providing easy access to face masks, gloves, antibacterial gel and tissues. It also has a very handy built-in trash can for convenience disposal of used items. The trash can is removable. Get the protection you need.
Threat of Infection
A patient visibly ill with a cough comes to your office and sits in a busy waiting room.
A few days later, several patients who were in that waiting room report being ill and ask whether they became sick as a result of sitting next to your sick patient.
Growing public anxiety about the risk of an influenza pandemic make these complaints difficult to ignore. Guidelines have come out recently that recommend screening for cough and fever, and when it is found, using masks, alcohol-based hand sanitizer, and spaced seating.
You ask yourself if it is time to incorporate these guidelines and change your office practice, and you wonder how you are going to do this and how much it will cost. As critical front-line workers, physicians have compelling reasons to implement and follow stringent respiratory infection-control measures in their offices.
Many respiratory infections are serious, and some are lethal. When a pandemic happens, family physicians will be needed to care for sick people, and they have a moral obligation to prevent these people from infecting each other while they are under a physician's care.
Physicians also have the incentive of protecting their families and friends by not bringing infection home. Another concern is keeping staff healthy, and simply put, it makes good business sense not to have employees off sick.
Finally, patients might question the lack of proper precautions, precautions that are gradually being implemented in other care settings.
The recent release by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario13 of guidelines to prevent the spread of infections in the office might increase the risk of lawsuits if proper precautions are not taken. Taken from: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1783603
