Personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic (Letter #2)

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Anesthesia, Surgery, and Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. Hung192@gmail.com.
² Departments of Anesthesia, Physiology and Biophysics, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Immunology, and Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
³ Departments of Anesthesia and Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
⁴ Departments of Anesthesia and Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.

Comment

Orlando Hung et al. Can J Anaesth. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;67(11):1649-1650.

doi: 10.1007/s12630-020-01785-3. Epub 2020 Aug 10.

¹ Departments of Anesthesia, Surgery, and Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. Hung192@gmail.com.
² Departments of Anesthesia, Physiology and Biophysics, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Immunology, and Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
³ Departments of Anesthesia and Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
⁴ Departments of Anesthesia and Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.

No abstract available

Comment in

In reply: Personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic (Letters #1 and #2).
Duggan LV, Lockhart SL, Grocott HP. Duggan LV, et al. Can J Anaesth. 2020 Nov;67(11):1651-1652. doi: 10.1007/s12630-020-01786-2. Epub 2020 Aug 11. Can J Anaesth. 2020. PMID: 32783174 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Personal protective equipment (PPE) for both anesthesiologists and other airway managers: principles and practice during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lockhart SL, Duggan LV, Wax RS, Saad S, Grocott HP. Lockhart SL, et al. Can J Anaesth. 2020 Aug;67(8):1005-1015. doi: 10.1007/s12630-020-01673-w. Epub 2020 Apr 23. Can J Anaesth. 2020. PMID: 32329014 Free PMC article.

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