Ten Sunshine Coast hospital workers have been praised after exposing themselves to COVID-19 to save the life of a patient.
The COVID-positive patient went into anaphylactic shock because of an adverse reaction to contrast dye used in MRI scanning.
The 10 healthcare workers did not have time to put on personal protective equipment (PPE) before they intervened to treat the patient.
Sunshine Coast Hospital acting chief executive Andrew McDonald thanked the staff for their actions.
"Our staff put their lives at risk to provide life-saving treatment to this patient who is thankfully now in a stable condition in the ward," he said in a statement.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young also thanked the healthcare workers.
"These staff put themselves in harm's way to help a patient in need. They put the patient's welfare before their own," Dr Young said.
"Staff were required to act quickly and may not have been able to maintain full infection control while attending to the emergency."
The 10 staff members are now considered primary and close contacts of the case and have been ordered into quarantine for 14 days.
Mr McDonald said the incident did not pose any health risk to anyone but the isolating workers.
"All areas involved in the incident have been COVID cleaned. There is no risk to other patients or staff or to the community," he said.
Queensland Health could not say if the staff were vaccinated.
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