{"id":9783,"date":"2021-05-13T14:15:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9783"},"modified":"2021-05-14T14:15:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T21:15:48","slug":"evaluation-of-healthcare-personnel-exposures-to-patients-with-sars-cov-2-associated-with-personal-protective-equipment-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/13\/evaluation-of-healthcare-personnel-exposures-to-patients-with-sars-cov-2-associated-with-personal-protective-equipment-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation of Healthcare Personnel Exposures to Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Associated with Personal Protective Equipment Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lack of eye protection during the care of a COVID-19 patient was associated with test positivity for SARS-CoV-2 infection (RR=10) among 345 healthcare personnel (HCP) who sustained significant occupational exposure to COVID-19 patients in a tertiary care center in Minnesota from May to November 2020. While the most common reason for significant exposure was use of a surgical facemask in place of a respirator during aerosol generating procedures, this was not associated with test positivity. 2.3% (8 of 345) of HCP tested positive during the study period.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shah et al.\u00a0(May 12, 2021). Evaluation of Healthcare Personnel Exposures to Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Associated with Personal Protective Equipment Use. Infection Control &amp; Hospital Epidemiology. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2021.219\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2021.219<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of eye protection during the care of a COVID-19 patient was associated with test positivity for SARS-CoV-2 infection (RR=10) among 345 healthcare personnel (HCP) who sustained significant occupational exposure to COVID-19 patients in a tertiary care center in Minnesota from May to November 2020. While the most common reason for significant exposure was use&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/13\/evaluation-of-healthcare-personnel-exposures-to-patients-with-sars-cov-2-associated-with-personal-protective-equipment-use\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54,55],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-9783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-setting","tag-health-care-workers","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9784,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions\/9784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9783"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}