Institution of a Novel Process for N95 Respirator Disinfection with Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide in the Setting of the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Large Academic Medical Center

Personal protective equipment (PPE) has been an invaluable yet limited resource when it comes to protecting healthcare workers against infection during the 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In the US, N95 respirator supply chains are severely strained and conservation strategies are needed. A mu...

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Autores principales: Grossman, Julie, Pierce, Andrew, Mody, Jessica, Gagne, Jason, Sykora, Carol, Sayood, Sena, Cook, Susan, Shomer, Nirah, Liang, Stephen Y., Eckhouse, Shaina R.
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Publicado: by the American College of Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7184977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32353399
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2020.04.029
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author Grossman, Julie
Pierce, Andrew
Mody, Jessica
Gagne, Jason
Sykora, Carol
Sayood, Sena
Cook, Susan
Shomer, Nirah
Liang, Stephen Y.
Eckhouse, Shaina R.
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Pierce, Andrew
Mody, Jessica
Gagne, Jason
Sykora, Carol
Sayood, Sena
Cook, Susan
Shomer, Nirah
Liang, Stephen Y.
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description Personal protective equipment (PPE) has been an invaluable yet limited resource when it comes to protecting healthcare workers against infection during the 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In the US, N95 respirator supply chains are severely strained and conservation strategies are needed. A multidisciplinary team at the Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes Jewish Hospital, and BJC Healthcare was formed to implement a program to disinfect N95 respirators. The process described extends the life of N95 respirators using vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) disinfection and allows healthcare workers to retain their own N95 respirator across a large metropolitan healthcare system.
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spelling pubmed-71849772020-04-27 Institution of a Novel Process for N95 Respirator Disinfection with Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide in the Setting of the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Large Academic Medical Center Grossman, Julie Pierce, Andrew Mody, Jessica Gagne, Jason Sykora, Carol Sayood, Sena Cook, Susan Shomer, Nirah Liang, Stephen Y. Eckhouse, Shaina R. J Am Coll Surg Article Personal protective equipment (PPE) has been an invaluable yet limited resource when it comes to protecting healthcare workers against infection during the 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In the US, N95 respirator supply chains are severely strained and conservation strategies are needed. A multidisciplinary team at the Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes Jewish Hospital, and BJC Healthcare was formed to implement a program to disinfect N95 respirators. The process described extends the life of N95 respirators using vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) disinfection and allows healthcare workers to retain their own N95 respirator across a large metropolitan healthcare system. by the American College of Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020-08 2020-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7184977/ /pubmed/32353399 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2020.04.029 Text en © 2020 by the American College of Surgeons. Published by Elsevier 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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Grossman, Julie
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Gagne, Jason
Sykora, Carol
Sayood, Sena
Cook, Susan
Shomer, Nirah
Liang, Stephen Y.
Eckhouse, Shaina R.
Institution of a Novel Process for N95 Respirator Disinfection with Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide in the Setting of the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Large Academic Medical Center
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title_full Institution of a Novel Process for N95 Respirator Disinfection with Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide in the Setting of the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Large Academic Medical Center
title_fullStr Institution of a Novel Process for N95 Respirator Disinfection with Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide in the Setting of the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Large Academic Medical Center
title_full_unstemmed Institution of a Novel Process for N95 Respirator Disinfection with Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide in the Setting of the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Large Academic Medical Center
title_short Institution of a Novel Process for N95 Respirator Disinfection with Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide in the Setting of the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Large Academic Medical Center
title_sort institution of a novel process for n95 respirator disinfection with vaporized hydrogen peroxide in the setting of the covid-19 pandemic at a large academic medical center
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7184977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32353399
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2020.04.029
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