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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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Autores principales: Zhang, Shengyu, Yan, Zhiyu, Zhang, Yuheng, Wu, Xi, Liu, Li, Yang, Aiming, Duan, Mengjie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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