Question

During this time of COVID-19, it is very important to follow Infection Control Protocol.

Explain the specific use of each PPE. Identify certain practices of which you think could use improvement when following infection Control Protocol and describe how these improvements could impact personal and professional lives.

Answer 1

Personal protective equipment has become an important and imotive subject during the current covid 19 epidemic. Covid 19 is predominantly by contact or droplet transmission attributes to relatively large respiratory particle which are subject to gravitational forces and travel only approximately one meter from the patient. Air borne transmission may occur if the patient respiratory activity or medical procedure generate respiratory aerosols. These aerosoles contain particles that may travel much longer distance and remain airborne longer, but their infective potential is uncertain. Contact, droplet and airborne transmitted are each relevant during airway manoeuvers in infected patinets, particularly during tracheal intubation. Personal protective equipment is an important component, but only 1 part, of a system protecting an other patients from covid 19 cross infection. Appropriate use significantly reduces risk of viral transmission.personal protective equipment should logically be matched to the potential mode of viral transmission occur during patient care, it can be contact, droplet or airborne. Recommendation from international organization are broadly consistent, but equipment use is not. Only airborne precautions include a fitted high filteration mask and this should be reversed for aerosol generating procedures. Uncertainty remains around certain details of personal protective equipments including mask type, use of potential for resuse of equipment.