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The need of health policy perspective to protect Healthcare Workers during COVID-19 pandemic. A GRADE rapid review on the N95 respirators effectiveness.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Protecting Health Care Workers (HCWs) during routine care of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients is of paramount importance to halt the SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2) pandemic.
Primiano Iannone, Greta Castellini, Daniela Coclite, Antonello Napoletano, Alice Josephine Fauci, Laura Iacorossi, Daniela D'Angelo, Cristina Renzi, Giuseppe La Torre, Claudio M Mastroianni, Silvia Gianola   +10 more
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Comparing the fit of N95, KN95, surgical, and cloth face masks and assessing the accuracy of fit checking.

PLoS ONE, 2021
IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has made well-fitting face masks a critical piece of protective equipment for healthcare workers and civilians. While the importance of wearing face masks has been acknowledged, there remains a lack of understanding ...
Eugenia O'Kelly, Anmol Arora, Sophia Pirog, James Ward, P John Clarkson   +4 more
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Face masks to prevent transmission of influenza virus: a systematic review [PDF]

, 2010
Influenza viruses circulate around the world every year. From time to time new strains emerge and cause global pandemics. Many national and international health agencies recommended the use of face masks during the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic.
Aiello, AE, Cowling, BJ, Ip, DKM, Leung, GM, Zhou, Y   +4 more
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Safety and structural integrity of N95/PFF2 respirators decontamination [PDF]

American Journal of Infection Control, 2021
COVID-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, an emerging respiratory pathogen. The work environment represents a high-risk factor for health professionals. Given the scarcity of protective personal equipment due to global demand, decontamination and reuse studies should be carried out.
Coelho, WEGDS, Perrechil, F, Pedreira, MLG, Lopes, JL, Santos, MVLD, Gabrieloni, MC, Perfeito, JA, Moraes, MAD, Taminato, M   +8 more
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3-D Printed Protective Equipment during COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]

, 2020
While the number of coronavirus cases from 2019 continues to grow, hospitals are reporting shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline healthcare workers.
Fretwurst, Tobias, Hellwig, Elmar, Nelson, Katja, Nold, Julian, Pieralli, Stefano, Schmelzeisen, Rainer, Spies, Benedikt Christopher, Wesemann, Christian   +7 more
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Modified full-face snorkel masks as reusable personal protective equipment for hospital personnel.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Here we adapt and evaluate a full-face snorkel mask for use as personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers, who lack appropriate alternatives during the COVID-19 crisis in the spring of 2020.
Laurel Kroo, Anesta Kothari, Melanie Hannebelle, George Herring, Thibaut Pollina, Ray Chang, Dominic Peralta, Samhita P Banavar, Eliott Flaum, Hazel Soto-Montoya, Hongquan Li, Kyle Combes, Emma Pan, Khang Vu, Kelly Yen, James Dale, Patrick Kolbay, Simon Ellgas, Rebecca Konte, Rozhin Hajian, Grace Zhong, Noah Jacobs, Amit Jain, Filip Kober, Gerry Ayala, Quentin Allinne, Nicholas Cucinelli, Dave Kasper, Luca Borroni, Patrick Gerber, Ross Venook, Peter Baek, Nitin Arora, Philip Wagner, Roberto Miki, Jocelyne Kohn, David Kohn Bitran, John Pearson, Beatriz Arias-Arco, Ricardo Larrainzar-Garijo, Cristián Muñiz Herrera, Manu Prakash   +41 more
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Measurement of filtration efficiencies of healthcare and consumer materials using modified respirator fit tester setup.

PLoS ONE, 2020
During the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic there is unprecedented demand for personal protective equipment (PPE), especially N95 respirators and surgical masks.
Kenneth D Long, Elizabeth V Woodburn, Ian C Berg, Valerie Chen, William S Scott   +4 more
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Practical considerations for Ultraviolet-C radiation mediated decontamination of N95 respirator against SARS-CoV-2 virus.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Decontaminating N95 respirators for reuse could mitigate shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the United States Center for Disease Control has identified Ultraviolet-C irradiation as one of the most promising methods for N95 decontamination ...
Guillaume R Golovkine, Allison W Roberts, Chase Cooper, Sebastian Riano, Angela M DiCiccio, Daniel L Worthington, Jeffrey P Clarkson, Michael Krames, Jianping Zhang, Ying Gao, Ling Zhou, Scott B Biering, Sarah A Stanley   +12 more
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Plasma generated ozone and reactive oxygen species for point of use PPE decontamination system.

PLoS ONE, 2022
This paper reports a plasma reactive oxygen species (ROS) method for decontamination of PPE (N95 respirators and gowns) using a surface DBD source to meet the increased need of PPE due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Min Huang, Md Kamrul Hasan, Kavita Rathore, Md Abdullah Hil Baky, John Lassalle, Jamie Kraus, Matthew Burnette, Christopher Campbell, Kunpeng Wang, Howard Jemison, Suresh Pillai, Matt Pharr, David Staack   +12 more
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Comparison of Workplace Protection Factors for Different Biological Contaminants [PDF]

, 2011
This study compared workplace protection factors (WPFs) for five different contaminants (endotoxin, fungal spores, (1→3)-β-D-glucan, total particle mass, and total particle number) provided by an N95 elastomeric respirator (ER) and an N95 filtering ...
Adhikari, Atin, Cho, Kyungmin Jacob, Dwivedi, Alok, Grinshpun, Sergey A., Jones, Gordon, Jones, M. Susan, McKay, Roy, Reponen, Tiina, Shukla, Rakesh, Singh, Umesh   +9 more
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