Table 5 PPE supply and utilization
From: Emergency general surgery in Italy during the COVID-19 outbreak: first survey from the real life
Number | Percent | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Institutional measures for visitors | Yes | 71 | 100 |
No | 0 | 0 | |
Institutional measures for patients | Yes | 71 | 100 |
No | 0 | 0 | |
Institutional measures for surgeons | Yes | 50 | 70.4 |
No | 21 | 29.6 | |
Swabs on operated patients | Yes, all operated patients | 11 | 15.5 |
Nobody | 12 | 16.9 | |
Only for symptomatic | 48 | 67.6 | |
Swabs on surgeons | Yes, all surgeons | 7 | 9.8 |
Nobody | 9 | 12.7 | |
Only for symptomatic | 55 | 77.5 | |
Advanced PPE for professionals in OR during surgery | Yes, all cases | 9 | 12.7 |
Never | 22 | 30.9 | |
Only for documented COVID+ pts | 40 | 56.3 | |
Measures to reduce the dispersion of biological aerosol during MIS | Yes | 25 | 35.2 |
No | 46 | 64.8 | |
Only for documented COVID+ pts | 0 | 0 |