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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and has been declared as a pandemic COVID-19 patients may require transport for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes intra-or interhospital or transport from an outside hospital to a health-care facility Transport of critically ill or infectious patients is always challenging and involves the integration of various tasks and manpower The adverse events have been attributed to various factors such as a multidisciplinary team and lack of appropriate communication among team members, absence of equipment, or failure during transport, apart from physiological alteration inherent to the disease of the patient The transport of COVID-19 patients carries an additional risk of not only the disease itself but also due to the risk of its transmission to the transport team The human-to-human transmission of the virus can occur via respiratory droplets So, the person involved in the transport of such patients shall be at risk and warrants appropriate steps for their safety Appropriate planning by a well-trained transport team is an essence for the safe transport of the suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients The Transport Medicine Society guidelines present consensus guidelines for the safe transport of COVID-19 patients
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The transport medicine society consensus guideline for the transport of suspected or confirmed covid-19 patients
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