Professional development during a crisis and beyond: Lessons learned during COVID

Facemask Risks during the COVID-19 Crisis

Introduction: With the increasing severity of the COVID-19 epidemic, wearing a mask was recommended. This recommendation seems to have created concern among the public. Wearing a mask generally reduces the risk of virus and therefore potentially saves lives. In healthy populations, wearing a mask does not appear to cause any harmful physiological changes, and the potentially life-saving benefit...

Lessons Learned During HVAC Installation

This paper describes the implementation of a knowledge management tool to capture and reuse the lessons learned from the installation of HVAC equipment. It has been developed as an adjunct to an existing system that uses case-based reasoning to reuse previous HVAC installation specifications and designs. The system described lets engineers recall details of installation and commissioning and op...

Twelve Lessons on Hospital Leadership During COVID-19 Pandemic

Coronavirus pandemic has been announced by World Health Organization Director General on March 11th, 2020.Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences, was one the first referral hospitalsin the capital city of Tehran, I.R.Iran that entered the crisis and started a serious battle with the disease. Thehospital had to change many routine op...

History in a Crisis — Lessons for Covid-19

Writing in the heady days of new antibiotics and immunizations, esteemed microbiologists Macfarlane Burnet and David White predicted in 1972 that “the most likely forecast about the future of infectious diseases is that it will be very dull.” When asked to explain past events, historians are quick to assert the importance of context. If you want to understand how or why something happened, you ...

Challenges on Hospital Fire Safety during COVID-19 Crisis