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Plasmonic and Superhydrophobic Self-Decontaminating N95 Respirators [PDF]
ACS Nano, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic is endangering the world due to the spread of respiration droplets with viruses. Medical workers and frontline staff need to wear respirators to protect themselves from breathing in the virus-containing respiration droplets.
Zhong, Hong +8 more
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Respirators and Surgical Masks Artefacts on Phantom using Magnetic Resonance Imaging during COVID-19: A Cross-sectional Study [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022 Introduction: It is suitable for a patient to wear a respirator or face mask during any radiological investigation during Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic.
Shashi Kumar Shetty +3 more
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Safety Recommendations for Evaluation and Surgery of the Head and Neck During the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
, 2020 Importance The rapidly expanding novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, has challenged the medical community to an unprecedented degree.
Chinn, Steven B. +13 more
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mBio, 2020 The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has caused a severe, international shortage of N95 respirators, which are essential to protect health care providers from infection.
Katelyn E. Zulauf +7 more
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N95 respirator use during advanced pregnancy [PDF]
American Journal of Infection Control, 2014 To determine the physiological and subjective effects of wearing an N95 filtering facepiece respirator (N95 FFR) in advanced stages of pregnancy.Healthy pregnant women (n = 22) and nonpregnant women (n = 22) had physiological and subjective measurements taken with and without wearing an N95 FFR during exercise and postural sedentary activities over a 1-
Raymond J, Roberge +2 more
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Diagnosis and Management of COVID-19 Disease [PDF]
, 2020 SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus that was identified in late 2019 as the causative agent of COVID-19 (aka coronavirus disease 2019). On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the world-wide outbreak of COVID-19 a pandemic.
Carlos, Graham +5 more
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Decontamination and Reuse of N95 Masks: A Narrative Review
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2020 Background. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an unprecedented strain on healthcare supplies. Currently there is a global shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), especially N95 masks. In order to safeguard healthcare personnel in this critical
M. A. Khan +5 more
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Subject validation of reusable N95 stop-gap filtering facepiece respirators in COVID-19 pandemic.
PLoS ONE, 2020 IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has unveiled widespread shortages of personal protective equipment including N95 respirators. Several centers are developing reusable stop-gap respirators as alternatives to disposable N95 respirators during public ...
William C K Ng +8 more
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Effectiveness of N95 Respirator Decontamination and Reuse against SARS-CoV-2 Virus
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has created worldwide shortages of N95 respirators. We analyzed 4 decontamination methods for effectiveness in deactivating severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus and effect on respirator function.
Robert J. Fischer +13 more
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Disinfection of N95 Respirators with Ozone [PDF]
, 2020 The coronavirus disease 2019 crisis is creating a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), most critically, N95 respirators for healthcare personnel. Our group was interested in the feasibility of ozone disinfection of N95 respirators as an alternative for healthcare professionals and organizations that might not have access to other ...
Manning, Edward P +8 more
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