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The Cardiopulmonary Effects of Medical Masks and Filtering Facepiece Respirators on Healthy Health Care Workers in the Emergency Department: A Prospective Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: International COVID-19 guidelines recommend that health care workers (HCWs) wear filtering facepiece (FFP) respirators to reduce exposure risk. However, there are concerns about FFP respirators causing hypercapnia via rebreathing carbon dioxide (CO(2)). Most previous studies measured the...

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Autores principales: Sanri, Erkman, Karacabey, Sinan, Unal, Emir, Kudu, Emre, Cetin, Murat, Ozpolat, Cigdem, Denizbasi, Arzu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8767914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35058098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2021.11.021