Personal protective equipment (PPE) was an integral part of medical practice since the occurance of the great plague in the middle ages. It has been used in every global pandemic since then: Spanish flu, Smallpox, Ebola, bird flu. PPE consists of several parts, and is used for the purpose of preventing the infection of healthcare workers with the pathogens they are surrounded by. With the advent of the COVID-19 infection, protective equipment has become an everyday component of patient care. This affected the work of all hospital departments, all clinics at all levels of health care. It had a special impact on the work of outpatient emergency medical care, which is a specific workplace in itself even without the COVID-19 pandemic. In outpatient emergency medicine, protective equipment was used whenever there was a risk of working with a coronavirus infected patient. Symptoms of fever, cough, muscle pain, weakness were treated as a potential risk of infection. The process of donning protective equipment consists of a series of careful steps in order to fully protect against potential infection, all of which affected the quality of work of the outpatient emergency medical service. Response time increased, the quality of manual skills decreased and physical limitations appeared in the performance of medical procedures. In this study, the problems encountered by healthcare workers at the workplace of outpatient emergency medical care are assessed.