Emerging evidence indicates that many currently defined aerosol generating procedures (AGPs) are unlikely to play any significant role in the generation of infectious aerosol that poses a risk to ...

While there are many ways of spreading COVID-19, the best medical analysis currently is that the virus is transmitted via airborne events from aerosols. (That's a fancy term for breathing.) Perhaps, ...

What The Viewpoint Says: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has brought renewed urgency to the question of what constitutes an aerosol-generating procedure. Four factors that explain transmission risk during ...

BREMERTON, Wash. – An investigation into the COVID-19 outbreak at St. Michael Medical Center in Bremerton suggests that the virus may have been spread because of extended use of PPE and through ...

Amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), healthcare providers working on the frontlines are a particularly ...

The risk of exposure to infections such as SARS-CoV-2 from aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) appears low in open plan clinics where there are several feet of distance between bays, according to a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic will affect daily operating room management by ASCs, according to a narrative review published in the Journal of Clinical Anesthesia. Featured in the September 2020 issue of JCA, ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has amended its aerosol-generating procedure recommendations in its COVID-19 Guidance for Dental Settings document. The document, released on ...

BREMERTON — A recent report by state Department of Health officials indicates a COVID-19 outbreak at St. Michael Medical Center that has now infected at least 65 people may have spread through aerosol ...