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Protocol of a randomised controlled trial to assess medical staff’s inhalation exposure to infectious particles exhaled by patients during oesophagogastroduodenoscopy and the efficacy of surgical masks in this context
BACKGROUND: Aerosol-generating procedures such as oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (OGD) result in infectious particles being exhaled by patients. This substantially increases the medical staff’s risk of occupational exposure to pathogenic particles via airway inhalation and facial mucosal deposition. In...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9980315/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36854596 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068291 |