Open AccessHealth Problems and Skin Damages Caused by Personal Protective Equipment: Experience of Frontline Nurses Caring for Critical COVID-19 Patients in Intensive Care Units
Author(s) -
Sinu Jose,
Maneesha C Cyriac,
Manju Dhandapani
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
indian journal of critical care medicine/indian journal of critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.317
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1998-359X
pISSN - 0972-5229
DOI - 10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23713
Subject(s) - medicine , personal protective equipment , adverse effect , health care , pandemic , face shield , covid-19 , medical emergency , nursing , intensive care medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , economic growth
In the event of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) spread worldwide, frontline healthcare workers play a key role in the containment of this devastating pandemic, and to prevent the cross-transmission and gain confidence in battle with the pandemic, they are wearing personal protective equipment (PPE).