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m d a n most modern hospitals, no one is allowed to enter the perating theatre (OT) without wearing a surgical mask (proedure mask, surgical facemask). This practice is assumed o minimize the transmission of oro-naso-pharyngeal microrganisms from OT staff to patients’ open wounds, thereby ecreasing the likelihood of postoperative surgical site infecions (SSI) as well as functioning as protective barriers or the wearer.1 In this period of cost-restraints, shrinking ospital budgets, and evidence-based healthcare, many medcal personnel have re-examined traditional infection control ractices and the effectiveness of surgical masks2,3 but they ave yet to address the extremely important issue of how hese facemasks could benefit prescription glasses wearers ike myself. Fellow ‘four eyed surgeons’ would sympathies with my light knowing full well the agony we go through during long urgical procedures while wearing our regular ‘specs’ – and ost especially the ‘sliding glasses’ phenomena which keeps n occurring and the: ‘please nurse could you adjust/push ack my glasses’ we monotonously repeat during surgery. To counteract that procedural handicap I have come up ith a method utilising the facemask to maintain our ‘specs’ n fixed position for the duration of surgery. It took me 20 ears of trial and error to develop the ‘Ear Sling’ method of earing the facemask (I was tempted to refer to it narcissistially as the ‘Mo Facemask Sling’, but thought my colleagues ould consider that too pretentious). By passing the superior ies [of the facemask] around the ears like a ‘sling’ (Fig. 1), hereby ‘catching’ the ends of ones ‘specs’ around the stem |
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