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Personal protective equipment for ENT activity during COVID-19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: In the COVID-19 era physicians have to face with need to perform office procedures maintaining the maximum safety for both the patient and the Doctor himself. The purpose of this paper was to suggest some equipment useful to perform outpatient visits in an ENT setting. METHODS: A simple...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7333584/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32621249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-020-06177-3 |
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author | Farneti, Paolo Sorace, Filippo Tasca, Ignazio |
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description | BACKGROUND: In the COVID-19 era physicians have to face with need to perform office procedures maintaining the maximum safety for both the patient and the Doctor himself. The purpose of this paper was to suggest some equipment useful to perform outpatient visits in an ENT setting. METHODS: A simple modification of the standard headlight used during an ENT visit provides the operator a better face protection without any impairment in vision and comfort. In addition, in order to perform a safer ENT examination, a droplet protective barrier has been adapted to the patient's chair. RESULTS: Both the devices have been texted with success during a period of 2 months in our ENT clinic. No cases of contamination have been registered among physicians. CONCLUSION: A simple modification to a device used in the routine ENT activity implemented its protective efficacy with low costs. On the other hand, a more structured tool permitted to obtain a more protected environment during patient examination. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s00405-020-06177-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-73335842020-07-06 Personal protective equipment for ENT activity during COVID-19 pandemic Farneti, Paolo Sorace, Filippo Tasca, Ignazio Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol How I do it BACKGROUND: In the COVID-19 era physicians have to face with need to perform office procedures maintaining the maximum safety for both the patient and the Doctor himself. The purpose of this paper was to suggest some equipment useful to perform outpatient visits in an ENT setting. METHODS: A simple modification of the standard headlight used during an ENT visit provides the operator a better face protection without any impairment in vision and comfort. In addition, in order to perform a safer ENT examination, a droplet protective barrier has been adapted to the patient's chair. RESULTS: Both the devices have been texted with success during a period of 2 months in our ENT clinic. No cases of contamination have been registered among physicians. CONCLUSION: A simple modification to a device used in the routine ENT activity implemented its protective efficacy with low costs. On the other hand, a more structured tool permitted to obtain a more protected environment during patient examination. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s00405-020-06177-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-07-03 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7333584/ /pubmed/32621249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-020-06177-3 Text en © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | How I do it Farneti, Paolo Sorace, Filippo Tasca, Ignazio Personal protective equipment for ENT activity during COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Personal protective equipment for ENT activity during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Personal protective equipment for ENT activity during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Personal protective equipment for ENT activity during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Personal protective equipment for ENT activity during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Personal protective equipment for ENT activity during COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | personal protective equipment for ent activity during covid-19 pandemic |
topic | How I do it |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7333584/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32621249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-020-06177-3 |
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