Safety code blue! Assessing the use of blue surgical sterilization wrap for homemade respirator masks during the COVID-19 crisis

The use of surgical sterilization wrap for respirator masks during the COVID-19 crisis has become a popularized personal protective equipment alternative option due to claims supporting its ability to meet N95 standards. This study sought to assess these claims using standardized filter testing. The...

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Autores principales: Lammers, Daniel T., Jones, Ian F., Marenco, Christopher W., Morte, Kaitlin R., McClellan, John M., Eckert, Matthew J., Bingham, Jason R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mosby 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7362823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32682016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.07.021
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author Lammers, Daniel T.
Jones, Ian F.
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Morte, Kaitlin R.
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description The use of surgical sterilization wrap for respirator masks during the COVID-19 crisis has become a popularized personal protective equipment alternative option due to claims supporting its ability to meet N95 standards. This study sought to assess these claims using standardized filter testing. The tested material failed to meet N95 standards and suggests its use may place medical personnel at increased risk of harm when managing COVID-19 patients.
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spelling pubmed-73628232020-07-16 Safety code blue! Assessing the use of blue surgical sterilization wrap for homemade respirator masks during the COVID-19 crisis Lammers, Daniel T. Jones, Ian F. Marenco, Christopher W. Morte, Kaitlin R. McClellan, John M. Eckert, Matthew J. Bingham, Jason R. Am J Infect Control Brief Report The use of surgical sterilization wrap for respirator masks during the COVID-19 crisis has become a popularized personal protective equipment alternative option due to claims supporting its ability to meet N95 standards. This study sought to assess these claims using standardized filter testing. The tested material failed to meet N95 standards and suggests its use may place medical personnel at increased risk of harm when managing COVID-19 patients. Mosby 2021-02 2020-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7362823/ /pubmed/32682016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.07.021 Text en 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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Lammers, Daniel T.
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Marenco, Christopher W.
Morte, Kaitlin R.
McClellan, John M.
Eckert, Matthew J.
Bingham, Jason R.
Safety code blue! Assessing the use of blue surgical sterilization wrap for homemade respirator masks during the COVID-19 crisis
title Safety code blue! Assessing the use of blue surgical sterilization wrap for homemade respirator masks during the COVID-19 crisis
title_full Safety code blue! Assessing the use of blue surgical sterilization wrap for homemade respirator masks during the COVID-19 crisis
title_fullStr Safety code blue! Assessing the use of blue surgical sterilization wrap for homemade respirator masks during the COVID-19 crisis
title_full_unstemmed Safety code blue! Assessing the use of blue surgical sterilization wrap for homemade respirator masks during the COVID-19 crisis
title_short Safety code blue! Assessing the use of blue surgical sterilization wrap for homemade respirator masks during the COVID-19 crisis
title_sort safety code blue! assessing the use of blue surgical sterilization wrap for homemade respirator masks during the covid-19 crisis
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7362823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32682016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.07.021
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