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Airflows Around Oxygen Masks: A Potential Source of Infection

Patients with respiratory infections often require the use of supplemental oxygen via oxygen masks, which, in the hospital, may become sources of aerosolized infectious pathogens. To assess this risk, a human lung model (respiration rate, 12 breaths/min) was designed to test the potential for a simp...

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Autores principales: Hui, David S., Ip, Margaret, Tang, Julian W., Wong, Alexandra L.N., Chan, Matthew T.V., Hall, Stephen D., Chan, Paul K.S., Sung, Joseph J.Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The American College of Chest Physicians. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16963681
http://dx.doi.org/10.1378/chest.130.3.822