key: cord-0901532-s26qkq5d
authors: Gupta, Deepak
title: “N95/N99” Peri-Procedure Diapers During Lower Gastrointestinal Endoscopies
date: 2020-06-24
journal: Med Hypotheses
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2020.110026
sha: 8d79a64ec0bc3b10d247f21f8c18c85d275f5f45
doc_id: 901532
cord_uid: s26qkq5d

It is important to consider lower gastrointestinal endoscopies (LGIE) as aerosol-generating procedures. Thus, it may be better to protect room environments by ensuring patients wearing peri-procedure diapers (PPD) to contain infectious colorectal gas expulsions because fecal SARS-CoV-2 has been detected among COVID-19 patients even after they have undetectable nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2. Summarily, PPD among LGIE patients can potentially evolve as standard barrier modality.

It is important to consider lower gastrointestinal endoscopies (LGIE) as aerosol-generating procedures. Thus, it may be better to protect room environments by ensuring patients wearing peri-procedure diapers (PPD) to contain infectious colorectal gas expulsions because fecal SARS-CoV-2 has been detected among COVID-19 patients even after they have undetectable nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2. Summarily, PPD among LGIE patients can potentially evolve as standard barrier modality. confirmatory live-demonstrations of stable micro-droplets expulsing with colorectal gases as similar to live-demonstrations of micro-droplets while talking [9] , it may be safer to preemptively and empirically use "N95/N99" PPD during LGIE. 

The author declares to have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. 

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