Personal Protective Equipment for Liver Transplant in SARS-CoV-2 Polymerase Chain Reaction-Positive Convalescing Recipients

Personal protective equipment (PPE) comes in several variations, and is the principal safety gear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the user is severely impacted by its serious nonergonomic features. What PPE is appropriate for labor-intensive cases, like liver transplant (LT), remains un...

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Autores principales: Raveh, Yehuda, Livingstone, Joshua, Vianna, Rodrigo, Nicolau-Raducu, Ramona
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9157021/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35871876
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2022.05.014
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Livingstone, Joshua
Vianna, Rodrigo
Nicolau-Raducu, Ramona
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description Personal protective equipment (PPE) comes in several variations, and is the principal safety gear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the user is severely impacted by its serious nonergonomic features. What PPE is appropriate for labor-intensive cases, like liver transplant (LT), remains unknown. We describe our experience with 2 types of PPE used during 2 separate LT performed in COVID-19 positive recipients. We conclude that for the safety of both health care workers and patients, hospitals should designate a few PPE kits for labor-intensive surgical procedures. These kits should include powered air-purifying respirators, or a similar loose-fitting powered air hood.
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spelling pubmed-91570212022-06-02 Personal Protective Equipment for Liver Transplant in SARS-CoV-2 Polymerase Chain Reaction-Positive Convalescing Recipients Raveh, Yehuda Livingstone, Joshua Vianna, Rodrigo Nicolau-Raducu, Ramona Transplant Proc Article Personal protective equipment (PPE) comes in several variations, and is the principal safety gear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the user is severely impacted by its serious nonergonomic features. What PPE is appropriate for labor-intensive cases, like liver transplant (LT), remains unknown. We describe our experience with 2 types of PPE used during 2 separate LT performed in COVID-19 positive recipients. We conclude that for the safety of both health care workers and patients, hospitals should designate a few PPE kits for labor-intensive surgical procedures. These kits should include powered air-purifying respirators, or a similar loose-fitting powered air hood. Elsevier Inc. 2022 2022-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9157021/ /pubmed/35871876 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2022.05.014 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35871876
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2022.05.014
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