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Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

N95 respirators are personal protective equipment most often used to control exposures to infections transmitted via the airborne route. Supplies of N95 respirators can become depleted during pandemics or when otherwise in high demand. In this paper, we offer strategies for optimizing supplies of N9...

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Autores principales: de Perio, Marie A., Dowell, Chad H., Delaney, Lisa J., Radonovich, Lewis J., Kuhar, David T., Gupta, Neil, Patel, Anita, Pillai, Satish K., D’Alessandro, Maryann
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7303467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32423515
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.160
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author de Perio, Marie A.
Dowell, Chad H.
Delaney, Lisa J.
Radonovich, Lewis J.
Kuhar, David T.
Gupta, Neil
Patel, Anita
Pillai, Satish K.
D’Alessandro, Maryann
author_facet de Perio, Marie A.
Dowell, Chad H.
Delaney, Lisa J.
Radonovich, Lewis J.
Kuhar, David T.
Gupta, Neil
Patel, Anita
Pillai, Satish K.
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description N95 respirators are personal protective equipment most often used to control exposures to infections transmitted via the airborne route. Supplies of N95 respirators can become depleted during pandemics or when otherwise in high demand. In this paper, we offer strategies for optimizing supplies of N95 respirators in health care settings while maximizing the level of protection offered to health care personnel when there is limited supply in the United States during the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic. The strategies are intended for use by professionals who manage respiratory protection programs, occupational health services, and infection prevention programs in health care facilities to protect health care personnel from job-related risks of exposure to infectious respiratory illnesses. Consultation with federal, state, and local public health officials is also important. We use the framework of surge capacity and the occupational health and safety hierarchy of controls approach to discuss specific engineering control, administrative control, and personal protective equipment measures that may help in optimizing N95 respirator supplies.
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spelling pubmed-73034672020-06-22 Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic de Perio, Marie A. Dowell, Chad H. Delaney, Lisa J. Radonovich, Lewis J. Kuhar, David T. Gupta, Neil Patel, Anita Pillai, Satish K. D’Alessandro, Maryann Disaster Med Public Health Prep Concepts in Disaster Medicine N95 respirators are personal protective equipment most often used to control exposures to infections transmitted via the airborne route. Supplies of N95 respirators can become depleted during pandemics or when otherwise in high demand. In this paper, we offer strategies for optimizing supplies of N95 respirators in health care settings while maximizing the level of protection offered to health care personnel when there is limited supply in the United States during the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic. The strategies are intended for use by professionals who manage respiratory protection programs, occupational health services, and infection prevention programs in health care facilities to protect health care personnel from job-related risks of exposure to infectious respiratory illnesses. Consultation with federal, state, and local public health officials is also important. We use the framework of surge capacity and the occupational health and safety hierarchy of controls approach to discuss specific engineering control, administrative control, and personal protective equipment measures that may help in optimizing N95 respirator supplies. Cambridge University Press 2020-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7303467/ /pubmed/32423515 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.160 Text en © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dowell, Chad H.
Delaney, Lisa J.
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Kuhar, David T.
Gupta, Neil
Patel, Anita
Pillai, Satish K.
D’Alessandro, Maryann
Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
title Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
title_full Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
title_fullStr Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
title_short Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
title_sort strategies for optimizing the supply of n95 filtering facepiece respirators during the coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) pandemic
topic Concepts in Disaster Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7303467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32423515
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.160
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