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Assessment of N95 respirator decontamination and re-use for SARS-CoV-2
medRxiv, 2020 The unprecedented pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 has created worldwide shortages of personal protective equipment, in particular respiratory protection such as N95 respirators.
R. Fischer +13 more
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Dry Heat as a Decontamination Method for N95 Face Respirator Reuse
, 2020 A pandemic such as COVID-19 can cause a depletion of face respirators throughout the world, forcing temporal respirator reuse. In this research, dry heat was systematically evaluated by decontamination, filtration performance, and qualitative fit ...
Chamteut Oh +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 During the COVID-19 pandemic, N95 filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) were recommended to protect healthcare workers when providing care to infected patients.
C. Ontiveros +7 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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Gamma radiation sterilization of N95 respirators leads to decreased respirator performance
PLoS ONE, 2021 In response to personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages in the United States due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019, two models of N95 respirators were evaluated for reuse after gamma radiation sterilization.
Haedi E DeAngelis +8 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2018 Damage to the endothelial glycocalyx is a critical factor in increased pulmonary vascular permeability, which is the basic pathological feature of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
Xiang-Yong Liu +7 more
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Do Various Respirator Models Fit the Workers in the Norwegian Smelting Industry?
Safety and Health at Work, 2019 Background: Respirator fit testing is a method to assess if the respirator provides an adequate face seal for the worker. Methods: Workers from four Norwegian smelters were invited to participate in the study, and 701 respirator fit tests were performed ...
Solveig Foereland +2 more
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Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2020 BACKGROUND: Unprecedented demand for N95 respirators during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a global shortage of these masks.
S. Daeschler +16 more
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The Physics of Fluids, 2020 This work demonstrates the qualitative fluid flow characteristics of a standard N95 respirator with and without an exhalation valve. Schlieren imaging was used to compare an adult male breathing through an N95 respirator with and without a valve.
M. Staymates
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The Main Problems of Improvement of the Means of Individual and Collective Protection in Russia
Вестник войск РХБ защиты, 2023 The article is dedicated to the problems of further improvement of the Russian means of individual and collective protection and to the ways of their solution.
V. V. Batyrev
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