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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Corrigendum to “Personal protective equipment and intensive care unit healthcare worker safety in the COVID-19 Era (PPE-SAFE): An international survey” [Journal of Critical Care, Volume 59, October 2020, Pages 70–75]

Jan J. De WaeleAndrew Conway MorrisNiccolò BuettiNiccolò BuettiLuigi CamporotaGuy FrancoisJohannes MellinghoffNathalie ZappellaKarin AmreinNathalie Ssi Yan KaiAlexis TabahMuhammed ElhadiMatteo BassettiKevin B. LauplandPedro PóvoaAndrea CortegianiGabriela VidalLennie P. G. DerdeMahesh Ramanan

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Extreme exhaustionCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)masks COVID19business.industryMEDLINEInternational surveyHealthcare worker030208 emergency & critical care medicineRegretmedicine.diseaseCritical Care and Intensive Care MedicineIntensive care unitlaw.invention03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicine030228 respiratory systemlawMedicineMedical emergencyCorrigendumbusinessPersonal protective equipment

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The authors regret errors were present in the published article. Counts of some of the adverse events were erroneous. Changes to the text include. Last sentence of the abstract should read. Adverse effects of PPE included heat (1266, 51%), thirst (1174, 47%), pressure areas (1088, 44%), headaches (696, 28%), Inability to use the bathroom (661, 27%) and extreme exhaustion (492, 20%). All but pressure areas were associated with longer shift durations. Last sentence of the results section of the manuscript should read. All but pressure areas were associated with longer duration of shifts wearing PPE (Table 4). Table 1 the total number of community/urban type of hospital should read 740 instead of 741. Updated Tables 3 and 4 should read as below: The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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2021-06-01Journal of Critical Care
10.1016/j.jcrc.2020.10.010http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrc.2020.10.010