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Minerva Anestesiologica 2021 March;87(3):376-7

DOI: 10.23736/S0375-9393.20.15081-8

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Barrier enclosure systems and COVID-19: sealing and suction might not be enough

Massimiliano SORBELLO ¹ ✉, Rita CATALDO ², Ida DI GIACINTO ³, Stefano FALCETTA ⁴, Gerardo CORTESE ⁵, Ivana ZDRAVKOVIC ⁶, Ross HOFMEYR ⁷

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, San Marco University Hospital, Catania, Italy; ² Anestesiology, Pain Therapy and Intensive Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy; ³ Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Unit, Sant’Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy; ⁴ Clinic of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Riuniti Hospitals, Ancona, Italy; ⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Emergency and Intensive Care Unit, Città della Salute e della Scienza, Turin, Italy; ⁶ Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Unit, Gibiino Nursing Home, Catania, Italy; ⁷ Unit of Airway and Thoracic Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa