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Proper Use of Surgical N95 Respirators and Surgical Masks in the OR
Proper adherence to infection control precautions, including appropriate selection and use of personal protective equipment (PPE), is of significant importance to the health and well-being of perioperative personnel. Surgical masks are intended for use as a barrier to protect the wearer’s face from...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7105909/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23531312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aorn.2013.01.015 |
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author | Benson, Stacey M. Novak, Debra A. Ogg, Mary J. |
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description | Proper adherence to infection control precautions, including appropriate selection and use of personal protective equipment (PPE), is of significant importance to the health and well-being of perioperative personnel. Surgical masks are intended for use as a barrier to protect the wearer’s face from large droplets and splashes of blood and other body fluids; however, surgical and high-filtration surgical laser masks do not provide enough protection to be considered respiratory PPE. Potential exposure to airborne contaminants and infectious agents, including those present in surgical smoke, necessitates the use of respiratory PPE, such as a surgical N95 particulate filtering facepiece respirator. Filtering facepiece respirators greatly reduce a wide size range of particles from entering the wearer’s breathing zone and are designed to protect the user from both droplet and airborne particles. Every health care worker who must use a respirator to control hazardous exposures in the workplace must be trained to properly use the respirator and pass a fit test before using it in the workplace. |
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spelling | pubmed-71059092020-03-31 Proper Use of Surgical N95 Respirators and Surgical Masks in the OR Benson, Stacey M. Novak, Debra A. Ogg, Mary J. AORN J Featured Article Proper adherence to infection control precautions, including appropriate selection and use of personal protective equipment (PPE), is of significant importance to the health and well-being of perioperative personnel. Surgical masks are intended for use as a barrier to protect the wearer’s face from large droplets and splashes of blood and other body fluids; however, surgical and high-filtration surgical laser masks do not provide enough protection to be considered respiratory PPE. Potential exposure to airborne contaminants and infectious agents, including those present in surgical smoke, necessitates the use of respiratory PPE, such as a surgical N95 particulate filtering facepiece respirator. Filtering facepiece respirators greatly reduce a wide size range of particles from entering the wearer’s breathing zone and are designed to protect the user from both droplet and airborne particles. Every health care worker who must use a respirator to control hazardous exposures in the workplace must be trained to properly use the respirator and pass a fit test before using it in the workplace. Wiley 2013-04 2013-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7105909/ /pubmed/23531312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aorn.2013.01.015 Text en Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Featured Article Benson, Stacey M. Novak, Debra A. Ogg, Mary J. Proper Use of Surgical N95 Respirators and Surgical Masks in the OR |
title | Proper Use of Surgical N95 Respirators and Surgical Masks in the OR |
title_full | Proper Use of Surgical N95 Respirators and Surgical Masks in the OR |
title_fullStr | Proper Use of Surgical N95 Respirators and Surgical Masks in the OR |
title_full_unstemmed | Proper Use of Surgical N95 Respirators and Surgical Masks in the OR |
title_short | Proper Use of Surgical N95 Respirators and Surgical Masks in the OR |
title_sort | proper use of surgical n95 respirators and surgical masks in the or |
topic | Featured Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7105909/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23531312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aorn.2013.01.015 |
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