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cord-317575-srg9cyqp	Chien, Chen‐Yu	Proactive measures for the pandemic COVID‐19 infection in outpatient clinics of Otolaryngology Department	2020-06-03		.txt	text/plain	458	36	53	Ideally, nonurgent head and neck procedures, including operations, should be postponed to limit the transmission of COVID-19 from infected patients to health care workers. Endoscopic examinations of the nose, sinuses, nasopharynx, oropharynx, hypopharynx, and larynx are common diagnostic procedures, but they generate aerosols. Instead, we adopt a careful placement of pledgets soaked with decongestant and topical anesthetics in the patient's nose before examination. Patients are asked to use a surgical mask to cover their mouth when we insert the fiberscope through their nose during the procedure. The other benefit of using video is that the examiner can stand at the side rather than the front of the patient, thus avoiding contact with the aerosol generated during the procedure. Clinical characteristics of 138 hospitalized patients with 2019 novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia in Wuhan Epidemiologic features and clinical course of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Singapore	./cache/cord-317575-srg9cyqp.txt	./txt/cord-317575-srg9cyqp.txt