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dc.contributor.authorGan, CCR
dc.contributor.authorTseng, YC
dc.contributor.authorLee, FY
dc.contributor.authorLee, KI
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-17T03:57:12Z
dc.date.available2020-09-17T03:57:12Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn0735-6757
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ajem.2020.07.036
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/397608
dc.description.abstractThe surge in numbers of critically ill patients with COVID-19 can occur rapidly and challenge the finite burden of healthcare systems, especially the capacity of intensive care unit (ICU). Airborne infection isolation rooms with negative pressure are not universally available, particularly in resource-constraint countries. Moreover, the safety of the ICU practitioners' is compromised due to the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) and extensive environmental contamination. Although the current evidence points towards droplet precaution [1] rather than the airborne transmission of COVID-19, concerns of nosocomial transmission in shared rooms remain, mainly when aerosol-generating procedures are performed [2], such as intubation. Moreover, transferring patients out of the ICU for investigations poses a considerable risk in contaminating the patient and the physicians and hospital healthcare workers.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAmerican Journal of Emergency Medicine
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3202
dc.titlePersonal ventilation hood for protecting healthcare workers from aerosol-transmissible diseases
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC3 - Articles (Letter/ Note)
dcterms.bibliographicCitationGan, CCR; Tseng, YC; Lee, FY; Lee, KI, Personal ventilation hood for protecting healthcare workers from aerosol-transmissible diseases, American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2020
dcterms.dateAccepted2020-07-15
dc.date.updated2020-09-17T00:02:26Z
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gro.griffith.authorGan, Connie Cai Ru


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