Posted on 08/13/2021 5:55:14 AM PDT by Brookhaven
Abstract Objectives: This study was undertaken to evaluate whether the surgeons' oxygen saturation of hemoglobin was affected by the surgical mask or not during major operations.
Methods: Repeated measures, longitudinal and prospective observational study was performed on 53 surgeons using a pulse oximeter pre and postoperatively.
Results: Our study revealed a decrease in the oxygen saturation of arterial pulsations (SpO2) and a slight increase in pulse rates compared to preoperative values in all surgeon groups. The decrease was more prominent in the surgeons aged over 35.
Conclusions: Considering our findings, pulse rates of the surgeon's increase and SpO2 decrease after the first hour. This early change in SpO2 may be either due to the facial mask or the operational stress. Since a very small decrease in saturation at this level, reflects a large decrease in PaO2, our findings may have a clinical value for the health workers and the surgeons.
Will there be an increase in AFib (chronic irregular heartbeat) due to mask wearing?
I ask, because a decrease in blood oxygen levels and an increase in heart rate is exactly what sleep apnea produces in the body. Sleep apnea causes AFib.
We've never had people wearing surgical masks for such extended periods of time before. Some people have been doing this for over a year.
https://www.brighteon.com/35c4f254-5e5a-4846-aecc-9cd4f64cd521
I found that article over a year ago. The main problem with masks is the terrible hygiene. Anyone trained for wearing masks as PPE knows how bad covid mask hygiene is.
Proper mask use is;
1 clean gloves on
2 mask on
3 do your thing without touching mask
4 mask off and in garbage
5 gloves off and in garbage
6 Repeat for every mask use
How many are doing that?
When the hygiene is terrible here’s what happens;
“The Spread of a Norovirus Surrogate via Reusable Grocery Bags in a Grocery Supermarket”
https://www.neha.org/node/60021
More than that, masks need to be changed often: No less than one mask one store, and for those that work in that environment all day, probably once per hour...
Actually observe the masked: worn with gaps around nose or under the nose, carelessly handled and stored, infrequently replaced or washed and, the biggest thing, of plain cloth that filters no pathogens, but only stops droplets.
Then, observe touching: touching store products others and cashiers and baggers have touched, touching door handles, touching mail others and carriers have touched, touching car surfaces touched on last outing, touching the mask after touching other things...
It is a joke upon ourselves, to anyone with an average IQ actually thinking about it.
I must believe that herd immunity is happening, masked or not.
Yes, that isn’t happening with the vast majority of covid mask wearing.
there is a funny video of the way people treat their masks
Liberals think they carefully remove it from the sanitized wrapper, wear it all day, remove it with rubber gloves, radiate it with ultraviolet, throw it in the washing machine, alone, turn on the ‘sanitize’ setting, put it in the dryer, iron it, wrap it, put it in the autoclave, and store it...
What really happens shows someone digging around on the back seat floor of their car to find one, in a pile of discarded ones, shaking it outside, wearing it, and then tossing it back in the car.
People’s behavior reveals widespread compliance rather than faith in their effectiveness. Employers mandate masks; employees wear them below their noses. Businesses require masks; customers dig them out of their pockets for the duration of their visits. Most people aren’t stupid, but many will wear the stupid rags to avoid confrontations. If we all believed in their effectiveness, we’d be wearing them properly and insisting in biohazard containers for mask disposal.
Interesting. If it wasn’t so damned difficult and litigious for we mere peons to invent something I would just take aviation oxygen cannulas and build them in to the masks.
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