Innovative Safety Methods Employed For Delivering Quality Patient Care in a High Volume Tertiary Eye Care Setting By Recycling Available Resources and Integrating Information System During COVID Crises
“Never let good crises go to waste.” - - Winston Churchill The Lockdowns are back, as the cities are once again bracing for a steep influx of patients suffering from or suspected to be infected from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), owing to the soaring second wave of COVID-19. We as practicing ophthalmologists, need to keep our guard up now, more than ever. The need of the hour is the safety for our health, safety of the health of our health care workers and the patient’s health who visit our hospitals; along with simultaneously delivering high quality productive patient care. This drives the need for devising, effective and innovative safety strategies during the COVID-19 crises (Figure 1). Figure 1: Comprehensive Innovative Safe Practice Pattern Work Flow Utilization of hospital car parking area for COVID-19 triage Triaging has become a mandatory part of our pandemic practice, but the dearth of available space for triaging needs to be addressed. The sprint is on as eye care professi
Dr. Prasanna Venkatesh Ramesh · Dr. Shruthy Vaishali Ramesh