Objectives. The main objective of this study was to assess the cadmium and lead exposure levels in subject workers that work in sanitary landfill areas in southern Thailand. The study evaluated the blood cadmium and lead levels in terms of their possible role in worker contamination and transfer of cadmium and lead to the body. Materials and Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 1...

Health professionals who acted in the Covid-19 pandemic were subject to protocols and proper use of Personal Protective Equipment - PPE. The research aimed estimate amount PPE distributed health an Adult ICU, during period, absenteeism these professionals. study used secondary data from Electronic Citizen Information System e-SIC analyzed provided by Government Federal District, between 2020 20...

Safety health issues are at the forefront of dealing with infectious diseases during Covid-19 crisis. In context this critical pandemic event, study focuses on discovering frontliners experiences Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) A thematic analysis has been used to identify themes and subthemes for study. Researchers interviewed individuals understand reactions dressed in PPE while duty. The...

The pandemic year of 2020 brought unparalleled and swift changes to health care processes within Australia. All registered nurses in the Post Anaesthesia Care Unit (PACU) a regional tertiary referral hospital had make routine personal protective equipment (PPE) practice accommodate safer environment for both staff patients. Changes PPE practices included addition heat moisture exchange (HME) fi...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To develop and test a worksite intervention that protects healthcare workers who handle antineoplastic drugs from work-related exposures. 
. DESIGN Intervention study. 
. SETTING A university hospital in a large midwestern metropolitan area and its outpatient chemotherapy infusion clinic.
. SAMPLE 163 staff (nurses, pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians) who work with a...

BACKGROUND To experimentally determine the survival kinetics of influenza virus on personal protective equipment (PPE) and to evaluate the risk of virus transfer from PPE, it is important to compare the effects on virus recovery of the method used to contaminate the PPE with virus and the type of eluent used to recover it. METHODS Avian influenza virus (AIV) was applied as a liquid suspension...

The objective of this study was to investigate the factors that can increase or decrease time in which military remain activity using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), as well provide assistance decision-makers at tactical level influences be decisive for field fulfilling different missions Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, and Radiological Defense (DefNBQR). This analysis is a review literatur...

Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) increased during the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce virus transmission. Here, we quantitatively analyse emergence PPE and COVID-19-related litter over 14 months for 11 countries using collection application Litterati. The proportion masks in by >80-fold as a result legislation, from <0.01% >0.8%. Gloves wipes, more prevalent at ~0.2% before pandemic, doub...

During this coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic, nations are taking bold measures to mitigate the spread of Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in order to avoid the overwhelming its critical care facilities. While these “flattening the curve” initiatives are showing signs of impeding the potential surge in COVID-19 cases, it is not known whet...