Personal protective equipments (PPEs) for COVID-19: a product lifecycle perspective

Singh, Shubhendu Kumar; Khawale, Raj Pradip; Chen, Haiyong; Zhang, Haolong; Rai, Rahul

doi:10.1080/00207543.2021.1915511

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“…22 Removal of dedicated equipment or clothing that are worn by health care professionals for the selfprotection to halt the easy transmission of infectious diseases is important steps to be considered. 23 In our study only 45 (41.3%) have always removed PPE as recommended and 51 (46.8) have removed most of time. Wrong method of doffing can easily transferred the virus from the PPE to user body.…”

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Healthcare Professionals Providing Direct Care to the COVID-19 Patients: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

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Introduction: COVID-19 highly contagious viruses that have reached every corner of the world. Despite the heroic efforts to control the pandemic, health care professional risk for COVID-19 exposure was an important measure to identify due to lack of personal protective equipment. The objective of the study was to find out the prevalence of healthcare professionals providing direct care to the COVID-19 patient. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional was conducted through online questionnaire from June 2020 to August 2020. Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethical Review Board of Nepal Health Research Council (Reference number: 363/2020 P). World Health Organization risk assessment protocol questionnaire was used for COVID-19 and distributed among 300 health care workers of Nepal involved in the management of COVID-19 hospitals. Convenience sampling was used. The KoBo toolbox was used for online data collection. Data analysis was done using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 23. Point estimate at 95% Confidence Interval was calculated along with frequency and percentage for binary data. Results: Among 300 study participants, 109 (36.33%), (30.85-41.74 at 95% Confidence Interval) of participants provide direct care to infected patients. With total respondents, 41 (37.61%) were registered nurses, medical doctors 28 (25.68%) and paramedics 36 (33.02%). Conclusions: Health care workers who provide direct care to the COVID-19 patient were similar to other studies done in similar settings. About half of the participants were exposed to COVID-19 virus from the hospital setting rather than from community setting which is similar to the study done in similar setting which might be due to lack of follow of protocols during COVID-19 patient care.

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Healthcare Professionals Providing Direct Care to the COVID-19 Patients: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

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“…Additionally, within the workplace cross training of staff was reported to increase flexibility and agility to respond ( 40 , 42 , 46 ). However, caution was expressed with a need to see these responses well-coordinated ( 41 ) to ensure user safety is not compromised ( 47 ).…”

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“…Others point to the disorganisation of supply chains and bureaucratic inefficiencies that compromise preparedness for pandemic demands ( 33 ). Overcoming these barriers will require collaboration of key PPE suppliers, government reforms and reduction in “red tape” ( 47 ).…”

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What Have We Learnt About the Sourcing of Personal Protective Equipment During Pandemics? Leadership and Management in Healthcare Supply Chain Management: A Scoping Review

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Williams

2021

Front. Public Health

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Introduction: During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic there have been much publicised shortages in Personal Protective Equipment for frontline health care workers, from masks to gowns. Recent previous airborne pandemics provide an opportunity to learn how to effectively lead and manage supply chains during crisis situations. Identifying and plotting this learning against time will reveal what has been learnt, when and, significantly, what can be learnt for the future.Aims: (i) To identify the temporal trajectory of leadership and management learning in health supply chain management through pandemics and (ii) to identify leadership and management lessons to enable the resilient supply of key items such as PPE in future pandemics.Methods: We undertook a scoping review in line with PRISMA (scoping review extension) searching Business Source Premier, Health Business Elite, Medline, ProQuest Business Collection and PubMed. Search terms were focused on recent airborne pandemics (SARS; Ebola; Zika virus; H1N1 swine flu, COVID-19), supply chain management, PPE, leadership, learning, inhibitors and facilitators and resilience e.g., SARS AND supply chain* AND (“personal protective equipment” OR PPE) (leaders* OR manage*) Titles and abstracts were downloaded to Endnote and duplicates removed. Two authors independently screened all of the titles and abstracts. Inclusion criteria focused on leadership and management in health supply chains during pandemics, peer reviewed or grey literature (either from business journals or reports): exclusion criteria included not in English and not focused on a named pandemic. Once interrater reliability was assured, authors completed a title and abstract screening independently. Ten percent of the resultant full text articles were screened by both authors, once agreement was reached the full text articles were screened independently noting reasons for exclusion. A data extraction tool was designed to capture findings from the final articles included in the review.Results/Discussion: We found 92 articles and, after screening, included 30 full text articles. The majority were focused on COVID-19 (N = 27) and most were from the USA (N = 13). We identified four themes related to leadership and management of pandemic PPE supply chains, (i) Leadership and management learning for pandemic PPE supply chain management, (ii) Inhibitors of PPE supply chain resilience during a pandemic, (iii) Facilitators employed to manage the immediate impacts of PPE supply chain demands during a pandemic,and (iv) Facilitators proposed to ensure longer term resilience of PPE supply chains during pandemics Our study suggests there has been limited leadership and management learning for PPE supply chains from previous pandemics, however there has been extensive learning through the COVID-19 pandemic. Lessons included the importance of planning, the significance of collaboration and relationship building. Resilience of PPE supply chains was reported to be dependent on multiple levels from individuals to organisation level and also interdependent on (i) sustainability, (ii) the practise of PPE and (iii) long term environmental impact of PPE suggesting the need, long term, to move to a circular economy approach.

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“…The CDC and FDA (FDA, 2020) have established design standards for gloves, emphasizing attributes like proper fit and allergen-free materials. Latex gloves are favored by many clinicians over nitrile gloves, primarily because latex gloves tend to provide a superior fit (Singh et al ., 2021).…”

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“…These gowns are typically created utilizing chemical, thermal or mechanical bonding techniques and spun bond or melt blown non-woven textiles. These textiles are made from a variety of raw materials, including polyester, polypropylene and polyethylene, and their specific qualities can be adjusted by changing the bonding type, fiber type and fabric finish to meet different usage needs (Singh et al ., 2021).…”

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A critical review of personal protective equipments in relation to pandemics

Sunny,

Lalkrishna,

James

et al. 2024

IJCST

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PurposePersonal Protective Equipment plays an inevitable part in the current scenario of pandemics in the world. A novel coronavirus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus-2 (SARS-Cov 2), began as an outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, China, in late December 2019, and quickly spread worldwide. It quickly escalated into an international public health crisis. This opened up the high demand for the innovation and research of new materials in the Personal Protective Equipment industry.Design/methodology/approachPubMed, Embase and Google Scholar were searched for relevant literature regarding personal protective equipment and the information was organized in a systematic way.FindingsThere are no adequate number of studies taken up in the field of use of textiles in medical applications especially with PPEs.Research limitations/implicationsThis structured review will generate a sense of the significance of using PPE for controlling pandemics and also awaken need for additional research and innovations in this area.Practical implicationsThe authorities of the management should take timely intervention in choosing the right material for their PPE in their hospitals. Hence health care professionals teams have an inevitable role in preventing the adverse environmental impact due to the inadvertent disposal of PPEs.Social implicationsThere is a lack of systematic way of disposing contaminated single-use face masks in a safe, environmentally acceptable manner. The dumping of single-use PPE in domestic garbage has had an adverse effect on the environment. Mismanaged plastic waste endangers the health of ecosystems by polluting marine and terrestrial environments, posing a significant risk of ingestion or injury to animals and contaminating habitats.Originality/valueThis review article provides an in-depth review of the use of different materials in PPE and challenges regarding its long-term use and implications on the environment.

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Personal protective equipments (PPEs) for COVID-19: a product lifecycle perspective

Cited by 18 publications

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Healthcare Professionals Providing Direct Care to the COVID-19 Patients: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

Healthcare Professionals Providing Direct Care to the COVID-19 Patients: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

What Have We Learnt About the Sourcing of Personal Protective Equipment During Pandemics? Leadership and Management in Healthcare Supply Chain Management: A Scoping Review

A critical review of personal protective equipments in relation to pandemics

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