Improvised PPE to Combat COVID-19: A Simple Innovation to Combat a Pandemic

Innovation is always the outcome whenever humans encounter a problem that has no previous solution. In the case of the pandemic caused by Covid-19 there has been sporadic shortages in the availability of personal protective equipment (PPE). In this article we describe or experience of producing a simple and inexpensive method for coupling a variety of snorkeling masks with anesthetic filters to produce PPE suitable for examining and undertaking procedures associated with otorhinolaryngology.

Author(s): Krishna M. Brown

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