Intensive care unit isolation hood decreases risk of aerosolization during noninvasive ventilation with COVID-19

Can J Anaesth. 2020 Oct;67(10):1481-1483. doi: 10.1007/s12630-020-01721-5. Epub 2020 May 26.

Authors

Kendrick M Shaw^#¹, Angela L Lang^#¹, Rodrigo Lozano², Michele Szabo¹, Samuel Smith¹, Jingping Wang³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. jwang23@mgh.harvard.edu.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Aerosols
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / therapy*
Coronavirus Infections / virology
Equipment Design
Humans
Intensive Care Units*
Noninvasive Ventilation / methods*
Pandemics
Patient Isolators*
Pneumonia, Viral / therapy*
Pneumonia, Viral / virology

Substances

Aerosols