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Personal Protective Equipment Adherence of Pediatric Resuscitation Team Members During the COVID-19 Pandemic - 20/10/21

Doi : 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.05.022 
Emily C. Alberto, MD a, Kathleen H. McCarthy, BS a, Colleen A. Hamilton, BA a, Jacob Shalkevich, BA a, Zachary P. Milestone, BA a, Rima Izem, PhD b, c, Jennifer L. Fritzeen, MSN, RN a, Ivan Marsic, PhD d, Aleksandra Sarcevic, PhD e, Karen J. O’Connell, MD, MEd f, Randall S. Burd, MD, PhD a, ⁎
a Division of Trauma and Burn Surgery, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC 
b Division of Biostatistics and Study Methods, Children’s National Research Institute, Washington, DC 
c Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Epidemiology, George Washington University, Washington, DC 
d Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 
e College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 
f Division of Emergency Medicine, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC 

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Abstract

Study objective

During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers have had the highest risk of infection among essential workers. Although personal protective equipment (PPE) use is associated with lower infection rates, appropriate use of PPE has been variable among health care workers, even in settings with COVID-19 patients. We aimed to evaluate the patterns of PPE adherence during emergency department resuscitations that included aerosol-generating procedures.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective, video-based review of pediatric resuscitations involving one or more aerosol-generating procedures during the first 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (March to June 2020). Recommended adherence (complete, inadequate, absent) with 5 PPE items (headwear, eyewear, masks, gowns, gloves) and the duration of potential exposure were evaluated for individuals in the room after aerosol-generating procedure initiation.

Results

Among the 345 health care workers observed during 19 resuscitations, 306 (88.7%) were nonadherent (inadequate or absent adherence) with the recommended use of at least 1 PPE type at some time during the resuscitation, 23 (6.7%) of whom had no PPE. One hundred and forty health care workers (40.6%) altered or removed at least 1 type of PPE during the event. The aggregate time in the resuscitation room for health care workers across all events was 118.7 hours. During this time, providers had either absent or inadequate eyewear for 46.4 hours (39.1%) and absent or inadequate masks for 35.2 hours (29.7%).

Conclusion

Full adherence with recommended PPE use was limited in a setting at increased risk for SARS-CoV-2 virus aerosolization. In addition to ensuring appropriate donning, approaches are needed for ensuring ongoing adherence with PPE recommendations during exposure.

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 Please see page 620 for the Editor’s Capsule Summary of this article.
 Supervising editor: Lise E. Nigrovic, MD, MPH. Specific detailed information about possible conflict of interest for individual editors is available at editors.
 Author contributions: ECA, JLF, KJO, and RSB conceptualized and designed the study. ECA supervised data collection that was perfromed by KHM, CAH, and JS. ZPM and RI provided statistical analysis. ECA, KJO, and RSB drafted the initial manuscript and all authors contributed to critical revision. All authors approved of the work in its final form. RSB takes responsibility for the manuscript as a whole.
 All authors attest to meeting the four ICMJE.org authorship criteria:(1) Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND (2) Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND (3) Final approval of the version to be published; AND (4) Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
 Fundingandsupport: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article as per ICMJE conflict of interest guidelines (see www.icmje.org). The authors have stated that no such relationships exist. Dr. Izem’s work on this project was supported by grant 5UL1TR001876-03 by the National Center for Research Resources (Guay-Woodford).
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