Personal Protective Equipment-Related Nasal Bridge Folliculitis in a Corona Warrior

Rajeev Sharma; Ashish Bindra; Kapil Dev Soni

doi:10.1055/s-0041-1722834

Indian Journal of Neurosurgery (Mar 2022)

Personal Protective Equipment-Related Nasal Bridge Folliculitis in a Corona Warrior

Rajeev Sharma,
Ashish Bindra,
Kapil Dev Soni

Affiliations

Rajeev Sharma: Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Ashish Bindra: Department of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Kapil Dev Soni: Department of Critical and Intensive Care, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1722834
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 01
pp. 067 – 069

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Nasal bridge is a common site suffering personal protective equipment-induced skin damages over face among first-line health care workers in this coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. We hereby report folliculitis as a complication following regular use of N95 respirator and goggles, unreported in literature till now.

Published in Indian Journal of Neurosurgery

ISSN: 2277-954X (Print); 2277-9167 (Online)
Publisher: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Surgery; Medicine: Internal medicine: Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry: Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system
Website: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-00028728

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