Table 5.
PPE supply and utilization
| Number | Percent | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Institutional measures for visitors | Yes | 71 | 100 |
| No | 0 | 0 | |
| Institutional measures for patients | Yes | 71 | 100 |
| No | 0 | 0 | |
| Institutional measures for surgeons | Yes | 50 | 70.4 |
| No | 21 | 29.6 | |
| Swabs on operated patients | Yes, all operated patients | 11 | 15.5 |
| Nobody | 12 | 16.9 | |
| Only for symptomatic | 48 | 67.6 | |
| Swabs on surgeons | Yes, all surgeons | 7 | 9.8 |
| Nobody | 9 | 12.7 | |
| Only for symptomatic | 55 | 77.5 | |
| Advanced PPE for professionals in OR during surgery | Yes, all cases | 9 | 12.7 |
| Never | 22 | 30.9 | |
| Only for documented COVID+ pts | 40 | 56.3 | |
| Measures to reduce the dispersion of biological aerosol during MIS | Yes | 25 | 35.2 |
| No | 46 | 64.8 | |
| Only for documented COVID+ pts | 0 | 0 |
MIS minimally invasive surgery