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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in COVID 19 Pandemic
- Source :
- Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2020.
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Abstract
- Objectives: To assess prevalence of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)-related symptoms and adverse reactions during Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemics. Methods: We conducted an observational study among people exposed to various degree of infectious risk. Data were collected with a self-administered online questionnaire. Results: The entire cohort complained about a wide range of adverse reactions: respiratory symptoms affected 80.3% of respondents, 68.5% referred pressure-related skin lesions, fewer manifested a dermatosis of different grade or ocular symptoms. Most of the affected individuals belonged to healthcare staff and manifestations were predicted by wearing time (more than 6 h/d). Moreover, symptoms were higher in the healthcare staff wearing N95/FFP2 respirator mask. Conclusions: Given the crucial role of PPE to contain the pandemic infection, more attention has to be paid to exposed categories, establishing preventive measure of side effects to ensure total safety.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Health Personnel
Population
Computer-assisted web interviewing
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Surveys and Questionnaires
Health care
Pandemic
Humans
Medicine
adverse reactions
education
Pandemics
Personal protective equipment
education.field_of_study
SARS-CoV-2
healthcare workers
business.industry
respiratory symptoms
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
COVID-19
Covid19
Original Articles
030210 environmental & occupational health
mask
Italy
personal protective equipment
Emergency medicine
Cohort
Female
Observational study
skin injuries
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15365948 and 10762752
- Volume :
- 63
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....372b1d49494acf203d79bc946a0eab18