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cord-296725-ecy0rie9	Landau, Ruth	Lessons Learned From First COVID-19 Cases in the United States	2020-04-20		.txt	text/plain	670	32	41	The simultaneous surge of cases compounded by a critical shortage of protective personnel equipment (PPE), including N95 masks and high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters to avoid contaminating anesthesia machines, has added to the challenge that anesthesiologists are facing today on labor and delivery units across the United States. Current recommendations include airborne protection for all aerosolizing procedures such as endotracheal intubation during general anesthesia. As per current recommendations, for this patient who was neither tested nor symptomatic for COVID-19, the anesthesia team did not use any PPE (besides surgical masks and gloves) nor was a HEPA filter placed between the endotracheal tube and the anesthesia machine. Our case emphasizes that in labor and delivery units managing parturients from communities with a high prevalence of COVID-19 infection, in the absence of universal testing before cesarean delivery, all patients, even those initially asymptomatic on admission, should be treated as PUI when inducing general anesthesia.	./cache/cord-296725-ecy0rie9.txt	./txt/cord-296725-ecy0rie9.txt