What face mask for what use in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic? The French guidelines

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing a face mask has become usual and ubiquitous, in both hospitals and community. However, the general public is consuming surgical or filtering facepiece (FFP) masks irrespective of their specificity, leading to a global supply shortage for the most expo...

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Autores principales: Lepelletier, D., Grandbastien, B., Romano-Bertrand, S., Aho, S., Chidiac, C., Géhanno, J.-F., Chauvin, F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Healthcare Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7194956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32348833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.04.036
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description In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing a face mask has become usual and ubiquitous, in both hospitals and community. However, the general public is consuming surgical or filtering facepiece (FFP) masks irrespective of their specificity, leading to a global supply shortage for the most exposed persons, who are healthcare workers. This underlines the urgent need to clarify the indications of the different categories of mask, in order to rationalize their use. This article specifies the French position for the rational use of respiratory protective equipment for healthcare workers.
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spelling pubmed-71949562020-05-02 What face mask for what use in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic? The French guidelines Lepelletier, D. Grandbastien, B. Romano-Bertrand, S. Aho, S. Chidiac, C. Géhanno, J.-F. Chauvin, F. J Hosp Infect Short Report In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing a face mask has become usual and ubiquitous, in both hospitals and community. However, the general public is consuming surgical or filtering facepiece (FFP) masks irrespective of their specificity, leading to a global supply shortage for the most exposed persons, who are healthcare workers. This underlines the urgent need to clarify the indications of the different categories of mask, in order to rationalize their use. This article specifies the French position for the rational use of respiratory protective equipment for healthcare workers. The Healthcare Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-07 2020-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7194956/ /pubmed/32348833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.04.036 Text en © 2020 The Healthcare Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 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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