Articles: personal-protective-equipment.
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Cont Lens Anterior Eye · Jun 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic: Survey of future use of personal protective equipment in optometric practice.
The aim of this project was to evaluate which personal protective equipment (PPE) eye care practitioners (ECP) will use during the next months and also what they will ask the patient to use in clinical practice. ⋯ In summary, most ECPs planed on continuing to use higher standards of PPE. Those, who intended to wear masks themselves, would ask their patients to also do so, combined with hand disinfection.
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The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading fast and is affecting the clinical workers at much higher risk than the general population. Little is known about COVID-19 effect on pregnant women; however, the emerging evidence suggests they may be at high risk of asymptomatic disease. In light of projected shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), there is an aggressive attempt at conservation. ⋯ This includes providing labor and delivery personnel full PPE including N95 for the second stage of labor. This is critical to ensure the adequate protection for health care workers and to prevent spread to other health care workers and patients. KEY POINTS: · Second stage of labor exposes providers to aerosol.. · COVID-19 risk during second stage of labor is high.. · N95 should be used during second stage of labor..