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Personal Protective Equipment N95 Facemask Shortage Quick Fix: The Modified Airway From VEntilatoR Circuit (MAVerIC)
We are in a crisis where healthcare providers on the frontlines are running out of the appropriate personal protective equipment including N95 masks and power air-purifying respirators. Here, we propose a makeshift filter mask that we call the Modified Airway from VEntilatoR Circuit (MAVerIC) that c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7237167/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32440384 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7914 |
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author | Convissar, David Berra, Lorenzo Chang, Marvin G Bittner, Edward A |
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description | We are in a crisis where healthcare providers on the frontlines are running out of the appropriate personal protective equipment including N95 masks and power air-purifying respirators. Here, we propose a makeshift filter mask that we call the Modified Airway from VEntilatoR Circuit (MAVerIC) that can be assembled within seconds using widely available supplies routinely utilized by anesthesia providers in the operating room to provide practitioners on the frontlines with the high standard of protection of a N95 mask during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and can be easily quantitatively “fit tested” to ensure no significant leak to optimize safety and efficacy. |
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spelling | pubmed-72371672020-05-21 Personal Protective Equipment N95 Facemask Shortage Quick Fix: The Modified Airway From VEntilatoR Circuit (MAVerIC) Convissar, David Berra, Lorenzo Chang, Marvin G Bittner, Edward A Cureus Anesthesiology We are in a crisis where healthcare providers on the frontlines are running out of the appropriate personal protective equipment including N95 masks and power air-purifying respirators. Here, we propose a makeshift filter mask that we call the Modified Airway from VEntilatoR Circuit (MAVerIC) that can be assembled within seconds using widely available supplies routinely utilized by anesthesia providers in the operating room to provide practitioners on the frontlines with the high standard of protection of a N95 mask during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and can be easily quantitatively “fit tested” to ensure no significant leak to optimize safety and efficacy. Cureus 2020-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7237167/ /pubmed/32440384 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7914 Text en Copyright © 2020, Convissar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Anesthesiology Convissar, David Berra, Lorenzo Chang, Marvin G Bittner, Edward A Personal Protective Equipment N95 Facemask Shortage Quick Fix: The Modified Airway From VEntilatoR Circuit (MAVerIC) |
title | Personal Protective Equipment N95 Facemask Shortage Quick Fix: The Modified Airway From VEntilatoR Circuit (MAVerIC) |
title_full | Personal Protective Equipment N95 Facemask Shortage Quick Fix: The Modified Airway From VEntilatoR Circuit (MAVerIC) |
title_fullStr | Personal Protective Equipment N95 Facemask Shortage Quick Fix: The Modified Airway From VEntilatoR Circuit (MAVerIC) |
title_full_unstemmed | Personal Protective Equipment N95 Facemask Shortage Quick Fix: The Modified Airway From VEntilatoR Circuit (MAVerIC) |
title_short | Personal Protective Equipment N95 Facemask Shortage Quick Fix: The Modified Airway From VEntilatoR Circuit (MAVerIC) |
title_sort | personal protective equipment n95 facemask shortage quick fix: the modified airway from ventilator circuit (maveric) |
topic | Anesthesiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7237167/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32440384 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7914 |
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