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Personal Protective Equipment in COVID-19: Impacts on Health Performance, Work-Related Injuries, and Measures for Prevention.
Duan, Xiaoqin; Sun, Hongzhi; He, Yuxuan; Yang, Junling; Li, Xinming; Taparia, Kritika; Zheng, Bin.
  • Duan X; Department of Rehabilitation Medicine (Dr Duan); Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine (Dr Sun); Grade 2019 in Clinical Medicine, Jilin University (Mr He); Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (Dr Yang), Jilin University Second Hospital, Changchun, China; Department of Mechanical Engineering (Dr Li); Faculty of Science (Ms Taparia); Department of Surgery (Dr Duan, Dr Zheng), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
J Occup Environ Med ; 63(3): 221-225, 2021 Mar 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1189509
ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE:

To assess impact of personal protective equipment (PPE) on healthcare providers (HCPs) in caring for COVID-19 patients.

METHODS:

A cross-sectional survey was conducted over 50 hospitals in China. Descriptive analyses and Chi-square tests were performed on the collected data.

RESULTS:

All 104 frontline HCPs report negative impacts of PPE on their clinical performance, 97% of them experienced discomfort and injuries caused by wearing PPE for long hours. Frontline HCPs provided suggestions to alleviate the negative impacts and to enhance communication between healthcare staff and patients. Two hundred eighty two non-frontline HCPs also revealed similar problems; however, we recorded a few discrepancies between answers given by frontline and non-frontline HCPs.

CONCLUSIONS:

Wearing PPE for long hours degrades health performance. Measures were suggested to improve the design of PPE for protecting HCPs and enhancing their services to COVID patients.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Occupational Injuries / Personal Protective Equipment / COVID-19 Type of study: Experimental Studies / Observational study / Prognostic study / Qualitative research / Randomized controlled trials Limits: Adult / Female / Humans / Male Country/Region as subject: Asia Language: English Journal: J Occup Environ Med Journal subject: Occupational Medicine / Environmental Health Year: 2021 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: JOM.0000000000002123

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Occupational Injuries / Personal Protective Equipment / COVID-19 Type of study: Experimental Studies / Observational study / Prognostic study / Qualitative research / Randomized controlled trials Limits: Adult / Female / Humans / Male Country/Region as subject: Asia Language: English Journal: J Occup Environ Med Journal subject: Occupational Medicine / Environmental Health Year: 2021 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: JOM.0000000000002123