In 2020, the National Health Care Commission issued the "Technical Guidelines for Fever Clinic Building Equipment (for Trial Implementation)" to make very clear requirements in terms of fever clinic equipment.
On September 13, 2021, the Technical Guideline for Prevention and Control of Infection by Medical Institutions to Novel Coronavirus (Third Edition) was released; on the 17th of the same month, the "Management Guidelines for Fever Clinic Setting" was released.
These two documents, which put forward very specific requirements for the standardized setting as well as management of fever clinics, are also the blueprint for the operation and management of fever clinics nationwide at present. Among them, rapid nucleic acid testing of new crown is one of its key tasks.
In the more than two years of the new crown epidemic, fever clinics have become the triage port and outpost of the new crown epidemic. It is important for medical institutions to pay attention to and standardize fever clinics to minimize the in-hospital risk.
It is well known that fever clinics are a high prevalence site for receiving patients with a positive rapid test for new coronary nucleic acid. So how to distinguish between ordinary fever and positive NICs in fever clinics?
According to the "Fever Clinic Setting Management Guidelines" and other guidelines for outbreak prevention and control, fever clinics are required to have the ability to perform rapid nucleic acid testing. In fever clinics, rapid nucleic acid testing is an important weapon to reduce transmission.
The Nucleic Acid Rapid Test is able to complete the amplification phase of the Nucleic Acid test in a relatively short period of time, shortening the testing time from several hours to less than one hour and effectively advancing the gateway to prevention and control. So how does it increase the speed of detection? This brings us to the most important part of the test - PCR amplification analysis.
The main difference between the New Crown Nucleic Acid Rapid Test and the conventional nucleic acid test is the amplification instrument. The amplification instrument used for rapid nucleic acid testing is smaller and amplification efficiency is faster, and these two factors determine its application scenario.
Amplification is a very temperature-demanding process that requires precise temperature control (the temperature changes constantly during amplification).
Due to the different hardware of amplifiers, the portable amplifiers can raise and lower the temperature faster than the general amplifiers, and its machine bottom as well as the lid can be temperature controlled, with efficient amplification reagents can complete the amplification process in 30-40 minutes.
Besides, reducing the possibility of spreading infection is one of the most important tasks of fever clinics. It is very important to standardize the handling and control of patients with confirmed positive Nucleic Acid Rapid Test for the new crown. Dealing with efficient detection efficiency, the following points are also very important:
1) sound prevention and control system, implementation of emergency drills;
2) activation of prevention and control system, rapid reporting of epidemic information;
3) improvement of emergency disposal measures;
4) termination of emergency status, efficient restoration of functions and summary analysis.
