Exposure to a Surrogate Measure of Contamination From Simulated Patients by Emergency Department Personnel Wearing Personal Protective Equipment

Oren Feldman; Michal Meir; Danielle Shavit; Ravit Idelman; Itai Shavit

doi:10.1001/jama.2020.6633

Exposure to a Surrogate Measure of Contamination From Simulated Patients by Emergency Department Personnel Wearing Personal Protective Equipment

JAMA. 2020 May 26;323(20):2091-2093. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.6633.

Authors

Oren Feldman¹, Michal Meir², Danielle Shavit³, Ravit Idelman¹, Itai Shavit¹

Affiliations

¹ Pediatric Emergency Department, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
² Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
³ Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

Abstract

This study uses an atomizer and fluorescent markers to simulate contamination of uncovered skin and hair of health care workers wearing personal protective equipment after intubating patient manikins under emergency conditions.

MeSH terms

Aerosols
Aged
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Child
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control
Cough / virology
Emergency Service, Hospital
Fluorescence
Health Personnel*
Humans
Intubation, Intratracheal
Israel
Manikins*
Medical Staff, Hospital*
Nursing Staff, Hospital*
Occupational Exposure / prevention & control*
Pandemics / prevention & control
Personal Protective Equipment*
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control
Protective Clothing
Respiration, Artificial / adverse effects
Respiration, Artificial / methods
Respiratory Distress Syndrome / therapy
SARS-CoV-2
Skin

Substances

Aerosols