Customized personal protective equipment (PPE): Solution to conservation and management of supplies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

In the COVID-19 pandemic, global health care systems have become overwhelmed with potentially infectious patients seeking testing and care. Preventing spread of infection to and from health care workers (HCWs) and patients relies on effective use of personal protective equipment(PPE). The most criti...

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Autores principales: Sureka, Binit, Sinha, Arvind, Tak, Vibhor, Garg, Mahendra Kumar, Bhatia, Pradeep Kumar, Bhardwaj, Pankaj, Nag, Vijaya Lakshmi, Dutt, Naveen, Elhence, Abhay, Bhaskar, Suryanarayanan, Bishnoi, Ashok, Chauhan, Nishant, Bishnoi, NR, Misra, Sanjeev
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7380824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32754469
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_556_20
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author Sureka, Binit
Sinha, Arvind
Tak, Vibhor
Garg, Mahendra Kumar
Bhatia, Pradeep Kumar
Bhardwaj, Pankaj
Nag, Vijaya Lakshmi
Dutt, Naveen
Elhence, Abhay
Bhaskar, Suryanarayanan
Bishnoi, Ashok
Chauhan, Nishant
Bishnoi, NR
Misra, Sanjeev
author_facet Sureka, Binit
Sinha, Arvind
Tak, Vibhor
Garg, Mahendra Kumar
Bhatia, Pradeep Kumar
Bhardwaj, Pankaj
Nag, Vijaya Lakshmi
Dutt, Naveen
Elhence, Abhay
Bhaskar, Suryanarayanan
Bishnoi, Ashok
Chauhan, Nishant
Bishnoi, NR
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description In the COVID-19 pandemic, global health care systems have become overwhelmed with potentially infectious patients seeking testing and care. Preventing spread of infection to and from health care workers (HCWs) and patients relies on effective use of personal protective equipment(PPE). The most critical part in due course of managing this pandemic is adequate supply of PPEs. We have customized a PPE which is economical and reusable after proper disinfection. This customized PPE can be a solution to conservation of supply during this pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-73808242020-08-03 Customized personal protective equipment (PPE): Solution to conservation and management of supplies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic Sureka, Binit Sinha, Arvind Tak, Vibhor Garg, Mahendra Kumar Bhatia, Pradeep Kumar Bhardwaj, Pankaj Nag, Vijaya Lakshmi Dutt, Naveen Elhence, Abhay Bhaskar, Suryanarayanan Bishnoi, Ashok Chauhan, Nishant Bishnoi, NR Misra, Sanjeev J Family Med Prim Care Commentary In the COVID-19 pandemic, global health care systems have become overwhelmed with potentially infectious patients seeking testing and care. Preventing spread of infection to and from health care workers (HCWs) and patients relies on effective use of personal protective equipment(PPE). The most critical part in due course of managing this pandemic is adequate supply of PPEs. We have customized a PPE which is economical and reusable after proper disinfection. This customized PPE can be a solution to conservation of supply during this pandemic. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7380824/ /pubmed/32754469 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_556_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Commentary
Sureka, Binit
Sinha, Arvind
Tak, Vibhor
Garg, Mahendra Kumar
Bhatia, Pradeep Kumar
Bhardwaj, Pankaj
Nag, Vijaya Lakshmi
Dutt, Naveen
Elhence, Abhay
Bhaskar, Suryanarayanan
Bishnoi, Ashok
Chauhan, Nishant
Bishnoi, NR
Misra, Sanjeev
Customized personal protective equipment (PPE): Solution to conservation and management of supplies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
title Customized personal protective equipment (PPE): Solution to conservation and management of supplies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
title_full Customized personal protective equipment (PPE): Solution to conservation and management of supplies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
title_fullStr Customized personal protective equipment (PPE): Solution to conservation and management of supplies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Customized personal protective equipment (PPE): Solution to conservation and management of supplies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
title_short Customized personal protective equipment (PPE): Solution to conservation and management of supplies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
title_sort customized personal protective equipment (ppe): solution to conservation and management of supplies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) pandemic
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7380824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32754469
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_556_20
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