A cloth mask for under-resourced healthcare settings in the COVID19 pandemic

INTRODUCTION: COVID19 pandemic poses a global threat, with many unknowns. The potential for resource limited countries to suffer huge mortality is of major concern. Prevention and risk reduction strategies are paramount in the current absence of effective treatment or a vaccine. There is a global sh...

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Autores principales: Sugrue, Michael, O’Keeffe, Derek, Sugrue, Ryan, MacLean, Lorraine, Varzgalis, Manvydas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer London 2020
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7214097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32394153
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11845-020-02241-3
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author Sugrue, Michael
O’Keeffe, Derek
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description INTRODUCTION: COVID19 pandemic poses a global threat, with many unknowns. The potential for resource limited countries to suffer huge mortality is of major concern. Prevention and risk reduction strategies are paramount in the current absence of effective treatment or a vaccine. There is a global shortage of personal protective equipment. AIMS: This short paper describes the rationale for and development of a cloth homemade mask and has a step by step video. RESULTS: The template is reproducible around the world and is both washable and cheap. CONCLUSION: This article describes a simple way to make a cloth mask, suitable if medical masks are not available.
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spelling pubmed-72140972020-05-12 A cloth mask for under-resourced healthcare settings in the COVID19 pandemic Sugrue, Michael O’Keeffe, Derek Sugrue, Ryan MacLean, Lorraine Varzgalis, Manvydas Ir J Med Sci Original Article INTRODUCTION: COVID19 pandemic poses a global threat, with many unknowns. The potential for resource limited countries to suffer huge mortality is of major concern. Prevention and risk reduction strategies are paramount in the current absence of effective treatment or a vaccine. There is a global shortage of personal protective equipment. AIMS: This short paper describes the rationale for and development of a cloth homemade mask and has a step by step video. RESULTS: The template is reproducible around the world and is both washable and cheap. CONCLUSION: This article describes a simple way to make a cloth mask, suitable if medical masks are not available. Springer London 2020-05-12 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7214097/ /pubmed/32394153 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11845-020-02241-3 Text en © Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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