Personal protective equipment and doffing procedures in out-of-hospital practice: assessment with a contamination simulation

Table 2 Post doffing number of contaminated areas

	Face	Head	Shoulders	Upper arms	Forearms	Hands	Thorax	Upper back	Lower back	Abdomino-pelvic area	Thighs	Legs	Total
Surgical gown	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	2	1	1	2	7	17
Full body coverall	0	1	0	1	4	2	1	1	1	6	1	6	24
Self-made alternative PPE	0	0	2	5	1	2	0	0	0	2	1	5	18
Non-surgical isolation gown	0	2	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	1	2	7	17
Total	0/24	4/24	3/48	6/48	5/48	9/48	3/24	3/24	2/24	10/24	6/48	25/48

Post doffing number of contaminated areas observed on all 6 volunteers according to the 4 different tested gowns
The divisor is the maximum number of potential contamination per body area

ISSN: 1865-1380