New guidelines on use of personal protective equipment (PPE) by healthcare workers significantly expands the potential use of eye protection and fluid resistant surgical masks, including to doctors carrying out face-to-face assessments where a patient’s risk of covid-19 is unknown.1 The updated guidance from Public Health England, which is in line with World Health Organization recommendations, allows for local risk assessment in hospitals and primary care. GPs, staff in emergency or acute admissions units, and others who assess or treat patients without high risk symptoms but in areas of high transmission of covid-19 should wear aprons, surgical masks, eye protection, and gloves where the risk of droplet transmission is thought to warrant it (table 1). View this table: Table 1 What should you use when? This change “reflects the fact that coronavirus is now widespread in the community,” and so doctors are more likely to see patients infected with …

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Covid-19：PHE升级了所有有感染风险的患者接触的PPE建议

医护人员使用个人防护设备（PPE）的新指南极大地扩展了眼部防护和防液外科口罩的潜在使用范围，包括对医生进行了面对面评估，以评估患者未患covid-19的风险。 1英国公共卫生的最新指南与世界卫生组织的建议相符，可以对医院和初级保健机构进行本地风险评估。全科医生，急诊室或急诊室的工作人员以及其他评估或治疗无高风险症状但在covid-19高传播区域的患者的人员，应佩戴围裙，口罩，眼罩和手套，以防止发生小滴传播被认为有保证（表1）。查看此表：表1什么时候使用？这一变化“反映了冠状病毒现在在社区中广泛传播的事实”，因此医生更有可能看到感染……的患者。