Abstract:Background. Emergency care staff wearing elastomeric respiratory PPE report difficulties in communicating by telephone. We developed and tested an affordable technological solution aimed at improving telephone call intelligibility in staff wearing PPE.
Methods. A novel headset was created to enable a throat microphone and bone conduction headset to be used in combination with a standard hospital emergency alert telephone system. Speech intelligibility of a ED staff member wearing PPE was compared between the p… Show more
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