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AEROSOL GENERATING PROCEDURES AND RISK
- Medical procedures that have the potential to create aerosols in addition to those that patients
regularly form from breathing, coughing, sneezing, or talking are AGPs
- APGs can be grouped into 2 categories:
1. Procedures that create and disperse aerosols and 2. Procedures that induce the patient to produce aerosols
Judson, S.D.; M unster, V.J. Nosocom ial Transm ission of Em erging Viruses via Aerosol- Generating M edical Procedures. Viruses 2019, 11, 940.
Feeding tube insertion and/or change
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Judson, S.D.; M unster, V.J. Nosocom ial Transm ission of Em erging Viruses via Aerosol- Generating M edical Procedures. Viruses 2019, 11, 940.
? Feeding tube insertion and/or change
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ANZICS COVID-19 GUIDELINE
https://www.anzics.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ANZICS-COVID-19-Guidelines-Version-1.pdf
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