Implementing fit testing for N95 filtering facepiece respirators: Practical information from a large cohort of hospital workers

Qualitative fit testing for N95 respirators was conducted on 1271 health care workers. All male participants were fitted with a respirator. Six females, all under age 40 years, were not successfully fitted. The first-choice respirator provided a successful fit in 95.1% of the men and 85.4% of the wo...

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Autores principales: McMahon, Elizabeth, Wada, Koji, Dufresne, André
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7115286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18455051
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2007.10.014
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spelling pubmed-71152862020-04-02 Implementing fit testing for N95 filtering facepiece respirators: Practical information from a large cohort of hospital workers McMahon, Elizabeth Wada, Koji Dufresne, André Am J Infect Control Article Qualitative fit testing for N95 respirators was conducted on 1271 health care workers. All male participants were fitted with a respirator. Six females, all under age 40 years, were not successfully fitted. The first-choice respirator provided a successful fit in 95.1% of the men and 85.4% of the women. Gender and age in women were significant factors associated with successful fitting. These differences should be considered when implementing a respiratory protection program. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. 2008-05 2008-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7115286/ /pubmed/18455051 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2007.10.014 Text en Copyright © 2008 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved. 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.
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