“N95/N99” peri-procedure diapers during lower gastrointestinal endoscopies

It is important to consider lower gastrointestinal endoscopies (LGIE) as aerosol-generating procedures. Thus, it may be better to protect room environments by ensuring patients wearing peri-procedure diapers (PPD) to contain infectious colorectal gas expulsions because fecal SARS-CoV-2 has been dete...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gupta, Deepak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
Materias:
Letter to Editors
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7313482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32758872
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2020.110026
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Sumario:It is important to consider lower gastrointestinal endoscopies (LGIE) as aerosol-generating procedures. Thus, it may be better to protect room environments by ensuring patients wearing peri-procedure diapers (PPD) to contain infectious colorectal gas expulsions because fecal SARS-CoV-2 has been detected among COVID-19 patients even after they have undetectable nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2. Summarily, PPD among LGIE patients can potentially evolve as standard barrier modality.

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