Impact of Aerosol Box Use on Healthcare Provider Contamination

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Conditions studied: Coronavirus, Covid19, COVID-19 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

In brief

Aerosol Generating Medical Procedures (AGMP) are procedures that have the potential to create tiny particles suspended in the air. These particles can contain germs such as viruses. The current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 experience unusually high rates of critical illness that needs advanced airway management and intensive care unit admission. Bag-valve-mask (BVM) ventilation, laryngeal mask airway insertion (LMA), and endotracheal Intubation (ETI) are common AGMP for critically ill COVID-19 patients, and may contribute to a high risk of infection amongst Health Care Workers (HCW). To lessen HCW risk during high-risk AGMPs, a device called an aerosol box has been developed to place over the head of the patient, shielding the provider's face from virus droplets suspended in the air. The purpose of this research study is to better understand how particles disperse during AGMPs. The project team hopes what is learned from the project can help inform infection control measures. This could help make changes to the clinical environment and make it safer for HCW's. The investigators intend to investigate how an aerosol box performs in reducing contamination of HCW's who perform critical airway interventions.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04880668

Run by

KidSIM Simulation Program

People needed

122

Starts

2021-06-11

Expected to finish

2021-12-16

Last updated by the study team

2022-04-01

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may not qualify if…

• Decline to provide informed consent
• Unable to perform tasks required of the role due to physical limitations.

Where it is running

• Department of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California, United States
• KidSIM-ASPIRE Simulation Research Program Alberta Children's Hospital — Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children — Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Department of Pediatrics, CHU Sainte-Justine — Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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