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. 2020 Aug 25;8(3):E554–E559. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20200090

Table 2:

Contamination scores

Location Intubator; study arm Assistant; study arm


Control Plastic sheet Plexiglass box Control Plastic sheet Plexiglass box
Right hand 5 (5–5) 7 (7–7) 7 (7–7) 2 (2–2) 5 (4–6) 3 (3–6)

Left hand 6 (6–7) 7 (7–8) 8 (7–8) 3 (2–4) 6 (5–7) 4 (3–5)

Right forearm 0 (0–0) 5 (5–5) 1 (0–3) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–3) 0 (0–0)

Left forearm 3 (2–4) 5 (4–6) 2 (0–3) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–2) 0 (0–0)

Right upper arm 0 (0–0) 0 (0–2) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0)

Left upper arm 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0)

Torso 0 (0–2) 3 (2–4) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0)

Head and neck 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0)

Lower body 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0)

Total score 18 (13–21) 29 (25–34) 17 (15–22) 4 (4–6) 11 (10–16) 8 (7–9)

Note: All scores presented as medians (interquartile ranges). All scores are presented as the sum of scores for the front and back and for both assessors.