Portable negative pressure environment to protect staff during aerosol-generating procedures in patients with COVID-19

Patients with COVID-19 often need therapeutic interventions that are considered high aerosol-generating procedures. These are either being performed by healthcare providers with potentially inadequate personal protective equipment or the procedures are being delayed until patients clear their viral...

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Autores principales: Nilson, James, Bugaev, Nikolay, Sekhar, Pavan, Hojman, Haracio, Gonzalez-Ciccarelli, Luis, Quraishi, Sadeq A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33023899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2020-000653
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author Nilson, James
Bugaev, Nikolay
Sekhar, Pavan
Hojman, Haracio
Gonzalez-Ciccarelli, Luis
Quraishi, Sadeq A
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Bugaev, Nikolay
Sekhar, Pavan
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description Patients with COVID-19 often need therapeutic interventions that are considered high aerosol-generating procedures. These are either being performed by healthcare providers with potentially inadequate personal protective equipment or the procedures are being delayed until patients clear their viral load. Both scenarios are suboptimal. We present a simple, cost-effective method of creating a portable negative pressure environment using equipment that is found in most hospitals to better protect healthcare providers and to facilitate more timely care for patients with COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-75395822020-10-19 Portable negative pressure environment to protect staff during aerosol-generating procedures in patients with COVID-19 Nilson, James Bugaev, Nikolay Sekhar, Pavan Hojman, Haracio Gonzalez-Ciccarelli, Luis Quraishi, Sadeq A BMJ Open Respir Res Perspective Patients with COVID-19 often need therapeutic interventions that are considered high aerosol-generating procedures. These are either being performed by healthcare providers with potentially inadequate personal protective equipment or the procedures are being delayed until patients clear their viral load. Both scenarios are suboptimal. We present a simple, cost-effective method of creating a portable negative pressure environment using equipment that is found in most hospitals to better protect healthcare providers and to facilitate more timely care for patients with COVID-19. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7539582/ /pubmed/33023899 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2020-000653 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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title Portable negative pressure environment to protect staff during aerosol-generating procedures in patients with COVID-19
title_full Portable negative pressure environment to protect staff during aerosol-generating procedures in patients with COVID-19
title_fullStr Portable negative pressure environment to protect staff during aerosol-generating procedures in patients with COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Portable negative pressure environment to protect staff during aerosol-generating procedures in patients with COVID-19
title_short Portable negative pressure environment to protect staff during aerosol-generating procedures in patients with COVID-19
title_sort portable negative pressure environment to protect staff during aerosol-generating procedures in patients with covid-19
topic Perspective
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33023899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2020-000653
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