Abstract
Background: Personal protective equipment (PPE) use is required when caring for COVID-19 patients. Proper mask fitting is essential in prevention of infectious agent transmission at hospital setting.Methods and Results: We describe three cases of health care professionals (HCP) in a COVID-19 designated ward with positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR results, and were found to have improperly fitted masks.Conclusion: These cases of improperly fitting masks in HCP may have contributed to their eventual COVID-19 infection. These cases raise the important issue of PPE fitting. Abbreviations: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Health Care Professional (HCP), Real-time PCR (RT-PCR).
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 246-247 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Hospital Practice |
Volume | 48 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2020 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Clinical Biochemistry
- Health Information Management
- General Medicine
Keywords
- Covid-19
- N95
- equipment
- facemask
- personal protection equipment (PPE)
- testing
- transmission