Hospitals may Become &amp;ldquo;Disease Hotspots&amp;rdquo; for COVID-19 amid Shortage of Personal Protective Equipment

Coronavirus outbreak 2019 causes health-care employees an occupational safety concern. Several thousand health-care workers have been contaminated already. There are various reasons where, various occupational individual expose to the various types of the infections in the surrounding. The infections then have chances to spread in the community via these professionals. World Health Organization therefore has developed some of the Ideal precautionary measures to tackle or overcome this kind of the spreading of such infections. Therefore it is a concern to avoid intra-hospital spread of the communicable disease. Based on the Patient Safety Model Systems Technology Framework, approaches and interventions to protect healthcare workers in an emergency tertiary hospital are defined. In the fields of job activities, technology and equipment, environmental causes of job and organizational conditions. Faced with a possible pandemic, the concept of zero workplace infection remains an ambitious target that all health-care programs must aspire for. Various Technology and Equipment are therefore mandatory to provide to health care individuals, such as, Face mask, Hand gloves, face shield, Personal Protection Kit (PPE), hand sanitizers etc. Also awareness talks from the health care professionals are podcasted in different radio channels, news stations are continuously been published, Also the hospital waste management has primary role to dump out the hospital waste at given professional manner.

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“…[18]. A number of related reviews were reported by Patel et al [17], Singh et al [18], Singh et al [19] and Arora et al [20].…”

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Risk & Hazards of COVID 19 Pandemic on Occupational Professionals

Bonde

Kulkarni

Naqvi

2021

JPRI

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“…Antiinflammatory, anti-oxidants medicines or tablets such supplements of Vitamin C, Vitamin D, probiotic can be advised to take as a prophylactics in order to ward off the disease but strictly under medical supervision. Balance diet and adequate exercise is also able to act as potential prophylactics in if followed properly [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”

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Role of Drugs in COVID 19 Patient: A Review

Bhatia

2021

JPRI

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Background: No specific drug treatment is available for the COVID-19. Various drugs are being used and repurposed as COVID-19 treatment. Summary: COVID-19 has no defined treatment course because it has no precedent. Various drugs are tried and tested to be used upon patients to treat particular symptom. Hydroxycholoroquine, lopinavir, ritonavir and so on are the famous drugs being repurposed as COVID-19 treatment drugs. Prophylactics are not widely listed but supplements and drugs which contain anti-inflammatory properties and anti-oxidants should be inculcated in the diet so that innate immune response can fight off the external pathogenic invasion all by itself. Conclusion: Drugs listed for repurposing method must be tried and tested before administered it to a severely ill patients or to a large chunk of population. Proper study needs to be done before administered and starting full-fledged usage of any existing drug not meant for the treatment of COVID-19.

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“… 3 Indeed, HCW have been disproportionately affected by acquiring infection in their line of work. 4 , 5 The importance of a good seal between the face and the N95 respirator in preventing the transmission of infection to the HCW cannot be emphasized enough.…”

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Fit Factor Change on Quantitative Fit Testing of Duckbill N95 Respirators with the Use of Safety Goggles

Johns¹,

Kyaw²,

Lim³

et al. 2021

Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine

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A bstract N95 respirators and safety goggles are important components of personal protective equipment to reduce the spread of airborne infections, such as COVID-19, among healthcare workers. Poor N95 respirator seal may reduce its protective effect, thereby increasing transmission. Quantitative fit testing is an established way of assessing the N95 respirator fit, which provides a quantitative measure for seal, called the fit factor. Duckbill N95 respirators frequently fail the fit test. We hypothesized that using safety goggles with a wraparound elastic headband will increase their fit-factor by reinforcing the seal between the face and the upper margin of the respirator. We studied the effect of safety goggles with a wraparound elastic headband (3M™ Chemical Splash Resistant Goggles, ID 70006982741) on the fit factor of two types of Duckbill N95 respirators (Halyard FLUIDSHIELD*3, Model 99SA070M, and ProShield® N95 Model TN01-11) in 63 healthy volunteers in a nonrandomized, before-and-after intervention study design. The mean fit factor increased from 69.4 to 169.1 increased from 17/63 (27%) to 46/63 (73%) after the intervention ( p <0.0001, OR 3 [95% CI = 4.9–1223]). This is the first study to explore the impact of safety goggles on N95 respirator fit. We conclude that the use of safety goggles with a wraparound elastic headband increases the fit factor of the tested Duckbill N95 respirators. How to cite this article Johns M, Kyaw S, Lim R, Stewart WC, Thambiraj SR, Shehabi Y, et al . Fit Factor Change on Quantitative Fit Testing of Duckbill N95 Respirators with the Use of Safety Goggles. Indian J Crit Care Med 2021;25(9):981–986.

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Hospitals may Become “Disease Hotspots” for COVID-19 amid Shortage of Personal Protective Equipment

Abstract: How to cite this article: Patel MP, Kute VB, Goswami J, Balwani MR. Hospitals may Become “Disease Hotspots” for COVID-19 amid Shortage of Personal Protective Equipment. Indian J Crit Care Med 2020;24(11):1145–1146.

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Risk & Hazards of COVID 19 Pandemic on Occupational Professionals

Risk & Hazards of COVID 19 Pandemic on Occupational Professionals

Role of Drugs in COVID 19 Patient: A Review

Fit Factor Change on Quantitative Fit Testing of Duckbill N95 Respirators with the Use of Safety Goggles

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