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WCPT E-Update - March 2020
A Confederação Mundial de Fisioterapia WCPT está dedicando esta edição da E-Update ao COVID-19. Abaixo, você encontrará links para recursos e informações que coletamos.
Cada país/território terá sua própria resposta ao COVID-19. Adquira as informações da sua associação nacional de fisioterapia, governo ou órgão de controle de infecções. Se você não possui essas organizações ou estruturas em seu país/território, consulte as diretrizes da Organização Mundial de Saúde.
Você encontrará informações sobre a prática clínica, prevenção e controle de infecções, questões políticas e éticas nos links abaixo.
A WCPT possui uma página em seu site com informações e recursos sobre o COVID-19. Esta página é atualizada regularmente.
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| COVID-19 |
WCPT
is dedicating this issue of the E-Update to COVID-19. Below you will
find links to resources and information we have collated.
Each country/territory will have its own response to COVID-19. Please defer to information from your national physiotherapy association,
government, or infection control body. If you do not have these
organisations or structures in your country/territory, please defer to
WHO guidelines.
You will find information about clinical practice, infection prevention
and control, policy and ethical issues in the links below.
WCPT has a page on its website with information and resources about COVID-19. This page is updated regularly: www.wcpt.org/news/Novel-Coronavirus-2019-nCoV
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| WHO: information and resources |
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| WCPT member organisations: information and resources |
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| Just published! Report on digital physical therapy practice |
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The WCPT executive board has published a report setting out the future of digital physical therapy practice.
The report, jointly produced by WCPT and the International Network of Physiotherapy Regulatory Authorities
(INPTRA), recognises the development and implementation of digital
physical therapy practice and sets out key considerations and
recommendations to ensure the global physical therapy profession is able
to maximize the opportunities that digital practice offers.
Jonathon Kruger, WCPT chief executive officer, said: ‘This is a timely
report that will help our member organisations and their individual
members. Many physical therapists are grappling with the complexity of
COVID-19 and the challenges of working in a digital space. This report
clearly articulates the issues physical therapists will need to consider
as they shift to working virtually to provide telehealth for people in
need.'
Read the article: http://bit.ly/2Qv7NXD
Download the report: http://bit.ly/2U0kPyu |
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| Personal protective equipment for health workers |
Global health organisations are calling for healthcare workers to be given adequate protection.
WCPT has issued a joint press release
with the World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA) calling on
governments and healthcare organisations to support front line
healthcare workers in any way they can, but especially and urgently
through the supply of crucial personal protective equipment (PPE). They
are also asking to ensure that staff are getting adequate breaks during
their shifts, and time off between shifts, to be able to carry on in
what could be a long-term global crisis: www.wcpt.org/node/30125
WHO is also calling on industry and governments to increase
manufacturing by 40 per cent to meet rising global demand to address the
shortage of PPE, which is endangering health workers worldwide. WHO has
warned that severe and mounting disruption to the global supply of PPE –
caused by rising demand, panic buying, hoarding and misuse – is putting
lives at risk from COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. http://bit.ly/2U15TA4 |
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| Physiopedia: free online COVID-19 course |
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To
contribute towards the global effort to reduce the impact of the
COVID-19 pandemic, Physiopedia is providing a free online programme of
courses on its online learning platform at Physioplus.
The aim of these courses is to provide a practicing
physiotherapist/physical therapist with the knowledge, practices and
skills to allow them to play a proactive role in global and local
efforts to reduce the impact of COVID-19.
Find out more: www.physiospot.com/physiopedia/covid-19-update-free-online-course/ |
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| Postponed and cancelled events |
Due
to the fast-evolving global situation created by the spread of COVID-19
a number of our regions and member organisations have had to make some
quick and hard decisions to cancel or postpone events.
A page
has been set up on the WCPT website giving updates about events we know
have been cancelled or postponed. If your organisation has cancelled or
postponed an event and would like details included here, please contact
communications@wcpt.org.
www.wcpt.org/news/postponed-and-cancelled-events |
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| Additional resources |
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Physiotherapists may find these additional open access resources helpful.
The Lancet: to assist health workers and researchers
working under challenging conditions to bring this outbreak to a close,
The Lancet has created a Coronavirus Resource Centre. This resource brings together content about COVID-19 from across The Lancet journals as it is published.
Cochrane: a Special Collection: Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to critical care has
been released, it is available in English, Farsi, French, Japanese and
Spanish. News item is also available in German and Polish. |
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