As COVID-19 continues to challenge health care systems around the world, clinicians are struggling to find a way to deal with growing shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), particularly face masks. Yet reuse strategies and ingenuity are combining to help physician anesthesiologists confront the issue head-on.
Mary Dale Peterson, MD, MSHCA, the president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), explained the roots of the PPE shortage, how institutions and clinicians are