Personal protective equipment use in laparoscopy during COVID-19

COVID-19 pandemic mandates all the laparoscopic surgeons to don the personal protective equipment (PPE) to prevent getting infected in the operation theatre. PPE has few inherent problems which makes the surgery extremely challenging for all the surgeons. Dehydration and profuse sweating along with...

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Autor principal: Bhattacharya, Kaushik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Personal Viewpoint
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7597894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32978358
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jmas.JMAS_111_20
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description COVID-19 pandemic mandates all the laparoscopic surgeons to don the personal protective equipment (PPE) to prevent getting infected in the operation theatre. PPE has few inherent problems which makes the surgery extremely challenging for all the surgeons. Dehydration and profuse sweating along with breathing difficulty due to N95 mask with PPE increases the chances of committing surgical error during laparoscopy.
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spelling pubmed-75978942020-11-03 Personal protective equipment use in laparoscopy during COVID-19 Bhattacharya, Kaushik J Minim Access Surg Personal Viewpoint COVID-19 pandemic mandates all the laparoscopic surgeons to don the personal protective equipment (PPE) to prevent getting infected in the operation theatre. PPE has few inherent problems which makes the surgery extremely challenging for all the surgeons. Dehydration and profuse sweating along with breathing difficulty due to N95 mask with PPE increases the chances of committing surgical error during laparoscopy. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7597894/ /pubmed/32978358 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jmas.JMAS_111_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Minimal Access Surgery 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.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7597894/
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