Using Personal Protective Equipment by Healthcare Personnel: Challenges and Recommendations: A Mini Review Study

Background and aim: By accelerating the epidemic of Coronavirus ۲۰۱۹, global healthcare systems have been overshadowed with potential infectious patients who seek care. Prevention of the incidence of infection in healthcare workers and patients dependent on the effective use of personal protective equipment (PPE). PPE refers to clothes or devices designed to protect employees against physical hazards while working at work. PPE should only be considered as the last defensive line between risk and staff. Attempts to control the dangers of the workplace should always be reviewed at first. Although PPE is one of the best protection lines against exposure, many healthcare workers face obstacles and problems in their use, the purpose of this mini review study is extraction of challenges and solutions in the literature about the use of personal protection equipment by healthcare personnel.Materials and method: This study is a review of relevant literatures about the challenges to using personal protective equipment by healthcare personnel and suggested solutions. To meet the study aims, we searched the databases of SID, Irandoc, Google Scholar, PubMed, Medline, Scopus, Cochrane Library, and ScienceDirect to find articles published during ۲۰۰۵-۲۰۲۱, using the keywords of Personal protective equipment, Healthcare personnel, Challenges, Recommendations.Results: In total, ۱۲ articles were evaluated in this study, and the results were presented in two sections: challenges to using personal protective equipment and suggested solutions.Conclusion: In this study challenges to using personal protective equipment and suggested solutions were extracted, the results of this study can be considered for the development of future plans and strategies to provide solutions to better manage the use of personal protective equipment during crises.

کلیدواژه ها:

Personal protective equipment ، Healthcare personnel ، Challenges ، Recommendations