Zhang, X Sophie Duchaine, Caroline
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Clinical microbiology reviews
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been intense debate over SARS-CoV-2's mode of transmission and appropriate personal protective equipment for health care workers in low-risk settings. The objective of this review is to identify and appraise the available evidence (clinical trials and laboratory studies on masks and respirator...
Lan, F-Y Christophi, C A Buley, J Iliaki, E Bruno-Murtha, L A Sayah, A J Kales, S N
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Occupational medicine (Oxford, England)
Healthcare workers (HCWs) and other essential workers are at risk of occupational infection during the COVID-19 pandemic. Several infection control strategies have been implemented. Evidence shows that universal masking can mitigate COVID-19 infection, though existing research is limited by secular trend bias. To investigate the effect of hospital ...
Zheng, Hua Hébert, Harry L Chatziperi, Athanasia Meng, Weihua Smith, Blair H Yan, Jing Zhou, Zhiqiang Zhang, Xianwei Luo, Ailin Wang, Liuming
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British journal of anaesthesia
Current guidelines for perioperative management of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) are mainly based on extrapolated evidence or expert opinion. We aimed to systematically investigate how COVID-19 affects perioperative management and clinical outcomes, to develop evidence-based guidelines. First, we conducted a rapid literature review in EMBASE, M...
Simpson, J P Wong, D N Verco, L Carter, R Dzidowski, M Chan, P Y
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Anaesthesia
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the production of novel devices intended to protect airway managers during the aerosol-generating procedure of tracheal intubation. Using an in-situ simulation model, we evaluated laryngoscopist exposure of airborne particles sized 0.3 - 5.0 microns using five aerosol containment devices (aerosol box; sealed box wit...
Prasitsirikul, Wisit Pongpirul, Krit Pongpirul, Wannarat A Panitantum, Nayot Ratnarathon, Anuttra C Hemachudha, Thiravat
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Emerging microbes & infections
We report a 35-year-old female nurse who possibly received the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the blood sampling of a 35-year-old male patient initially suspected as a dengue infection. The patient had mild thrombocytopenia and positive dengue IgG and IgM whereas the clinicians were not aware of the possibility of false-positive dengue serology revealed i...
Akinbami, Lara J Vuong, Nga Petersen, Lyle R Sami, Samira Patel, Anita Lukacs, Susan L Mackey, Lisa Grohskopf, Lisa A Shehu, Amy Atas, Jenny
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Emerging infectious diseases
To estimate seroprevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2) among healthcare, first response, and public safety personnel, antibody testing was conducted in emergency medical service agencies and 27 hospitals in the Detroit, Michigan, USA, metropolitan area during May-June 2020. Of 16,403 participants, 6.9% had SARS-CoV-2 antibod...
Becker, Kathrin Brunello, Giulia Gurzawska-Comis, Katarzyna Becker, Jürgen Sivolella, Stefano Schwarz, Frank Klinge, Björn
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Clinical oral implants research
The current COVID-19 outbreak in conjunction with the need to provide safe dental treatments and the limited knowledge on the efficacy of protective measures has posed dentists into a challenging situation. Therefore, the present article aimed at collecting experiences and recommendations of frontline clinical experts on critical aspects of dental ...
Yim, Wonjun Cheng, Diyi Patel, Shiv H Kou, Rui Meng, Ying Shirley Jokerst, Jesse V
N95 decontamination protocols and KN95 respirators have been described as solutions to a lack of personal protective equipment. However, there are a few material science studies that characterize the charge distribution and physical changes accompanying disinfection treatments, particularly heating. Here, we report the filtration efficiency, dipole...
Celtikci, Emrah Karaaslan, Burak Börcek, Alp Özgün Emmez, Omer Hakan
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Neurosurgical focus
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, neurosurgeons all around the globe continue to operate in emergency cases using new self-protective measures. Personal protective equipment (PPE) use is recommended in all surgeries. The authors have experienced varying degrees of field of view (FOV) loss under the surgical microscope with di...
McGrath, B A Ashby, N Birchall, M Dean, P Doherty, C Ferguson, K Gimblett, J Grocott, M Jacob, T Kerawala, C
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Anaesthesia
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing a significant increase in the number of patients requiring relatively prolonged invasive mechanical ventilation and an associated surge in patients who need a tracheostomy to facilitate weaning from respiratory support. In parallel, there has been a global increase in guidance from professional bodies representing s...
