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Commentary on: Verbeek JS, Rajamaki B, Ijaz S, et al. Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2020; Apr 15;4(4):CD011621. doi:10.1002/14651858.
Implications for practice and research
The use of a powered, air-purifying respirator with coverall may protect against the risk of contamination better than an N95 mask and gown but was more difficult to don.
The creation of future studies is necessary to compare the risk of contamination during removal of personal protective equipment, PPE).
Context
Currently more than 59 million people are employed in the health sector worldwide, who are at risk of developing life-threatening infectious diseases due to contact with patients’ blood or body fluids.1 Due to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) pandemic, as well as other infectious diseases, healthcare workers (HCW) must properly use PPE.1 However, there is still uncertainty about the ideal type, composition, quantity and ways of using full-body PPE …
Footnotes
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
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Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.