Personal protective equipment usage, recycling and disposal among spine surgeons: An Asia Pacific Spine Society survey.
Chee Kidd ChiuChris Yin Wei ChanJason Pui Yin CheungPrudence Wing Hang CheungSiti Mariam Abd GaniMun Keong KwanPublished in: Journal of orthopaedic surgery (Hong Kong) (2021)
The usage of PPE was generally high among most countries especially for surgeries involving COVID-19 positive patients except for Myanmar and Nepal. Overall, the most used PPE were surgical face masks. For surgeries involving COVID-19 positive patients, the most used PPE were N95 masks. Most PPE were not recycled. Biohazard bins were the preferred method of disposal for all types of PPE.