Taping surgical masks to the skin decreases risk of ocular surface damage during the COVID-19 pandemic - Ophthalmology Times

5/2/2022 12:00:00 AM3 yearsago
by Lynda Charters
by Lynda Charters
During a presentation at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology’s 2022 annual meeting in Denver, Yuichi Hori, MD, PhD, and colleagues found that taping the top border of a surgical mask to a clinicians’ skin reduces the potential for ocular …
Taping the top border of the surgical mask to the clinicians skin reduced the potential for ocular surface damage resulting from expirations of air reaching the ocular surface during the COVID-19 pan… [+1588 chars]
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