Personal protective equipment impairs pulmonary gas exchange causing systemic hypercapnia-hypoxaemia and cerebral hyperperfusion-induced cephalalgia

Br J Surg. 2021 May 27;108(5):e205-e206. doi: 10.1093/bjs/znab060.

Collaborators

Welsh Surgical Research Initiative and Neurovascular Research Laboratory collaborators:
T Abdelrahman, A Beamish, C Brown, C Chalklin, C Eley, A Iannetelli, R Kokelaar, M Larsen, K Mellor, A Powell, N Warren, A Williams

Affiliations

¹ Health Education and Improvement Wales' School of Surgery, Nantgarw, UK.
² Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, Treforest, UK.
³ Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Morriston Hospital, Swansea, UK.
⁵ School of Medicine, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.

PMID: 33644815
DOI: 10.1093/bjs/znab060

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Blood Flow Velocity / physiology
Cerebrovascular Circulation
Cross-Over Studies
Headache / etiology*
Humans
Hypercapnia / etiology*
Hypoxia / etiology*
Middle Cerebral Artery / physiopathology
Monitoring, Physiologic
Oximetry
Personal Protective Equipment / adverse effects*
Pulmonary Gas Exchange
Skin Temperature