Standard surgical masks may be ‘insufficient’ for nurses on Covid-19 wards

The risk of hospital nurses contracting Covid-19 from patients can be “effectively mitigated” by giving staff higher-grade face masks, a trial at a hospital in Cambridge has suggested. Addenbrooke’s Hospital changed its approach after discovering that staff working on its Covid-19 wards were 47 times…

The post Standard surgical masks may be ‘insufficient’ for nurses on Covid-19 wards appeared first on Nursing Times.



0 comments:

Post a Comment