AANEM Connect

According to the medical literature I have been able to review, gowns, are only secondary to gloves as the most commonly used PPE. The ANEM guidance for reopening practice suggests use of gowns for Covid positive patients, but I wonder how many of our members are now routinely using gowns during all of our studies regardless  of Covid  status. With all gowns, there it's a classification of ability to protect the wearer. There are several different classifications, but the most common seems to be  AAMI (Association of advanced medical instrumentation. )This ranges from level one for minimal protection up to level four. There is quite a bit written about these levels of protection, but most of them were written before the Covid epidemic and seem to apply mainly to Ebola when considering viruses. There are some nicely written summaries from CDC and NiOSH which can be found by checking with Siri or Google. These are much more easy to read  than the full articles. While these are very informative, they do not specifically speak to our concerns over what level of PPE we should consider when performing electrodiagnostic studies. Again, I wonder how many of us are using gowns, what level of protection we are using, and what type of gown we have been able to obtain. Level one gowns are fairly easy to find, but higher levels are extremely hard to find. I could go on for sometime discussing this, but I am afraid I am boring everyone.