dc.contributor.author | Lockhart, Shannon L. et al. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-16T22:21:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-12-16T22:21:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-03-27 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-020-01638-z | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12663/2418 | |
dc.description.abstract | [LETTER]. To the Editor, We believe that protection of the well-being of healthcare providers while maintaining a workforce sufficient to respond to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are fundamental to pandemic planning. In this letter, we describe how our hospital used low-fidelity airway simulation to assess and evolve the personal protective equipment (PPE) used for airway management of patients with COVID-19. We have now had 47 healthcare workers processed through the COVID-19 airway simulation scenario. During the first day of the simulation, we used our facility’s recommended PPE comprising a “yellow gown” (Eden Textile micro fibre isolation gown, Edmonton, AB, Canada), a N95 respirator, a visor integrated into a surgical mask, and non-sterile nitrile gloves. When the practitioners changed the simple face mask to allow bag-mask ventilation during the induction of anesthesia, a patient cough was simulated. [...] | en_US |
dc.language | English | en_US |
dc.subject | COVID-19 | en_US |
dc.subject | Infectious Diseases | en_US |
dc.subject | Coronavirus | en_US |
dc.subject | Coronavirus Infections | en_US |
dc.subject | Personal Protective Equipment | en_US |
dc.subject | Pandemics | en_US |
dc.subject | Simulation Technique | en_US |
dc.subject | Health Personnel | en_US |
dc.title | Simulation as a tool for assessing and evolving your current personal protective equipment: lessons learned during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic | en_US |
eihealth.country | Others | en_US |
eihealth.category | Infection prevention and control, including health care workers protection | en_US |
eihealth.type | Other publications | en_US |
eihealth.maincategory | Protect Health Care Workers / Proteger la Salud de los Trabajadores | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Canadian Journal of Anesthesia | en_US |