High-flow nasal cannula for COVID-19 patients: risk of bio-aerosol dispersion

Eur Respir J. 2020 Oct 8;56(4):2003136. doi: 10.1183/13993003.03136-2020. Print 2020 Oct.

Authors

Jie Li¹, James B Fink¹, Stephan Ehrmann^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Cardiopulmonary Sciences, Division of Respiratory Care, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
² CHRU Tours, Médecine Intensive Réanimation, CIC INSERM 1415, CRICS-TriggerSep network, Tours, France.
³ INSERM, Centre d'étude des pathologies respiratoires, U1100, Université de Tours, Tours, France.

Abstract

High-flow nasal cannula does not generate higher risk of bio-aerosol dispersion than conventional oxygen masks https://bit.ly/2Yn0RQn

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Aerosols
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Cannula*
Coronavirus Infections*
Humans
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral*
SARS-CoV-2

Substances

Aerosols