Healthcare worker safety in an era of airborne disease and misinformation
This webinar brings together the authors from a number of recent studies investigating aerosol generation during medical procedures. The findings are discussed alongside the physiology and mechanisms behind respiratory aerosol generation to gain a deeper understanding of the risk of aerosolised pathogen transmission to healthcare workers.
Members of the research team at Fisher and Paykel Healthcare bring a unique insight from an industry perspective. They discuss the research undertaken by their company in response to the COVID-19 pandemic which aims to understand and mitigate the risks of administering respiratory therapies classified as aerosol generating procedures.
Andy Shrimpton
Speakers:
- Aerosol generation and respiratory patterns
Nick Wilson, MD, FRCA, MRCEM, MSc, BSc
Anaesthetic and ICU Registrar Edinburgh
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, UK - Aerosol generation during medical procedures: lessons from the AERATOR studies
Andy Shrimpton, BChD, MBChB (Hons)
Doctoral research fellow and Anaesthetic Registrar,
Bristol Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Research,
University of Bristol, Bristol, UK - Aerosol generation, dispersal and the impact of mitigations - lessons from the laboratory
Jean Marshall,PhD, BE, BSc and Mike Ronayne, BE
Fisher & Paykerl Healthcare, Auckland, New Zealand - Which healthcare workers are at risk from airborne disease and how?
Professor Tim Cook, BA (Hons), MBBS (Hons), MRCP, FRCA, FFICM
Consultant, Anaesthesia and IntensiveCareMedicine,RoyalUnited Hospitals Bath,
HonoraryProfessor ofAnaesthesia,University ofBristol,UK
Moderators: Robert Greif, Sabine Nabecker, Ana Isabel Pereira
