Beyond the PPE shortage: Improperly fitting personal protective equipment and COVID-19 transmission among health care professionals

Xue Ming; Carly Ray; Mahindra Bandari

doi:10.1080/21548331.2020.1802172

Beyond the PPE shortage: Improperly fitting personal protective equipment and COVID-19 transmission among health care professionals

Xue Ming, Carly Ray, Mahindra Bandari

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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)
Pages (from-to)	246-247
Number of pages	2
Journal	Hospital Practice
Volume	48
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/21548331.2020.1802172
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

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