Aerosol-generating procedures in head and neck surgery – can we improve practice after COVID-19?

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on international medicine practice. The propensity for head and neck surgery to generate aerosols needs special consideration over and above simply adopting personal protective equipment. This study sought to interrogate the literature and evaluate whe...

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Autores principales: Kerawala, C., Riva, F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7245279/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32513429
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjoms.2020.05.021
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spelling pubmed-72452792020-05-26 Aerosol-generating procedures in head and neck surgery – can we improve practice after COVID-19? Kerawala, C. Riva, F. Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg Article The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on international medicine practice. The propensity for head and neck surgery to generate aerosols needs special consideration over and above simply adopting personal protective equipment. This study sought to interrogate the literature and evaluate whether which additional measures might provide benefit if routinely adopted in minimising viral transmission. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. 2020-07 2020-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7245279/ /pubmed/32513429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjoms.2020.05.021 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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