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Commentary
Nursing issues
Use of personal protective equipment reduces the risk of contamination by highly infectious diseases such as COVID-19
  1. Wendel Mombaque Dos Santos
  1. University Hospital of Santa Maria, Brazilian Company of Hospital Services, Brasilia, Brazil
  1. Correspondence to Dr Wendel Mombaque Dos Santos, Brazilian Company of Hospital Services, Brasilia, Brazil; wendelmombaque{at}hotmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2020-103304

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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 …

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