Improved Testing and Design of Intubation Boxes During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Throughout the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, many emergency departments have been using passive protective enclosures ("intubation boxes") during intubation. The effectiveness of these enclosures remains uncertain. We sought to quantify their ability to contain aerosols using industry standard test protocols.We tested a commercially available passive protective enclosure representing the most common design and compared this with a modified...