In reply: Personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic (Letters #1 and #2)

Emergency medicine airway leads: a rapid response distributed educational model for emergency department COVID-19 airway management

“…Guided by international reports, provincial healthcare systems began preparing for an influx of critically ill patients requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation [ 2 ]. The severity of respiratory illness being reported, combined with the risk of virus transmission to health-care providers during aerosol-generating medical procedures [ 3 ], created an urgent need for airway education as several standard aspects of airway management were required to change [ 4 ].…”

Are the garment seams a potential source of breach in level-4 personal protective equipment gowns?

“…2 The recognition of wearing higher protection level gowns (level 4) during high-risk situations, such as aerosol-generating medical procedures, has recently been highlighted. 3 Shortages of single-use high-level PPE have been well reported, 4 with many institutions opting for various reusable PPE gowns of various protection levels. 5…”