Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care (Jan 2020)

Customized personal protective equipment (PPE): Solution to conservation and management of supplies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

  • Binit Sureka,
  • Arvind Sinha,
  • Vibhor Tak,
  • Mahendra Kumar Garg,
  • Pradeep Kumar Bhatia,
  • Pankaj Bhardwaj,
  • Vijaya Lakshmi Nag,
  • Naveen Dutt,
  • Abhay Elhence,
  • Suryanarayanan Bhaskar,
  • Ashok Bishnoi,
  • Nishant Chauhan,
  • N R Bishnoi,
  • Sanjeev Misra

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_556_20
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 5
pp. 2180 – 2182

Abstract

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In the COVID-19 pandemic, global health care systems have become overwhelmed with potentially infectious patients seeking testing and care. Preventing spread of infection to and from health care workers (HCWs) and patients relies on effective use of personal protective equipment(PPE). The most critical part in due course of managing this pandemic is adequate supply of PPEs. We have customized a PPE which is economical and reusable after proper disinfection. This customized PPE can be a solution to conservation of supply during this pandemic.

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