Background: A major challenge during the COVID pandemic is balancing personal protection and communication. Being heard while wearing a surgical mask or N95 isn’t too much of a challenge, communication can be significantly impaired while wearing a respirator mask. There are a number of fixes to this problem. Here, we share one simple, inexpensive option via Whit Fisher, MD (https://www.procedurettes.com/)
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Hardware
- Portable Speaker (Whit’s Option)
- Lapel Microphone (Whit’s Option)
Guest Post By:
Whit Fisher, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Brown EM
Post Peer Reviewed By: Salim R. Rezaie, MD (Twitter: @srrezaie)
Cite this article as: Anand Swaminathan, "Be Heard In a Respirator Mask", REBEL EM blog, March 20, 2021. Available at: https://rebelem.com/be-heard-in-a-respirator-mask/.
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Anand Swaminathan
Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at St. Joe's Regional Medical Center (Paterson, NJ)
REBEL EM Associate Editor and Author
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