Personal protective equipment for frontline health-care workers during COVID-19 pandemic: A review

Medical Journal of Babylon

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Santosh Kumar Swain¹  Pragnya Paramaita Jena² 

[1] Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, IMS and SUM Hospital, Siksha “O” Anusandhan University;Department of Microbiology, IMS and SUM Hospital, Siksha “O” Anusandhan University

关键词: COVID-19 pandemic;    health-care workers;    personal protective equipment;    SARS-CoV-2;   

DOI  :  10.4103/MJBL.MJBL_39_21

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications

【 摘 要 】

The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has thrown health systems indiscriminately across the globe into turmoil. The important route for the spread of COVID-19 is through aerosolized droplets that are expelled at the time of coughing, sneezing, or breathing, but there are also concerns for possible airborne transmission. COVID-19 pandemic has placed an unprecedented stress on the health-care system. Sudden increase in demand and limited availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) is making risks on health-care workers, which hamper their ability for effective management of the patients. Several health-care workers are dying in this global outbreak because of the improper protective measures during performing the high-risk procedures. Limited availability of the vaccine to health-care workers in all parts of the world and inadequate supply of proper therapeutic agents, such as personal protective measures, among health-care workers for restricting the COVID-19 spread are an important requirement. Regardless of the debate among the medical community for the use of PPE, a greater number of countries in the world are moving ahead with recommendations or mandates for using PPE in clinical interventions or caring for the COVID-19 patients. Some have attributed the death of health-care workers to inadequate supply of the PPE. However, there are some concerns about the improper use of PPE by the health-care workers. Policy makers, government, and health experts have increased the importance of manufacturing more PPE for the safety of the health-care professionals particularly frontline workers for COVID-19 patients. This review article provides an overview of PPE for frontline health-care workers in the COVID-19 pandemic.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC-SA