Sharing Our Experience of Operating an Endoscopy Unit in the Midst of a COVID-19 Outbreak
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- 1Department of Internal Medicine, Daegu Catholic University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea
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- DOI: http://doi.org/10.5946/ce.2020.076
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Fig. 1. Endoscopy unit staffs after donning personal protection equipment (from left to right, assisting nurse, endoscopist, and scope handler). All staffs are wearing hair caps, a pair of goggles, N95 facial masks, disposable gowns, two layers of gloves (one pair of non-latex exam gloves and another pair of latex surgical gloves or rubber gloves), and pairs of shoe covers. During the endoscopic exam, another disposable plastic gown was worn over the already donned gown.
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