• Antimicrob Resist Infect Control · Dec 2020

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    Keeping PPE barriers in COVID-19 wards while doing proper auscultation.

    • Einat Seidel, Shahar Luski, Yaarit Ribak, Ahmed Nama, Takeshi Saraya, Toshiaki Nishiyama, Yonatan Oster, and Ran Nir-Paz.
    • Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
    • Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2020 Dec 9; 9 (1): 196.

    AbstractThe emerging COVID-19 pandemic poses many difficulties to medical professionals. One of them is the need to use personal protective equipment (PPE) in order to protect themselves and their families, while not compromising their care. Physical examination is one of the cornerstones of medical assessment but parts of it are nearly impossible to do while wearing protective equipment. In this brief report we demonstrate a novel wireless stethoscope and its use for treating suspected and proven COVID-19 patients, as a representative to other infectious diseases.

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