Reprocessing N95s with hydrogen peroxide vaporization: A robust system from collection to dispensing

The SARS-CoV2 pandemic has created extreme shortages of N95 mask necessitating the need for rapid development of reuse and reprocessing plans. Our aim was to create a process to recapture, reprocess, and redistribute N95 masks using hydrogen peroxide vapor as a real time disinfection method within a...

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Autores principales: Weinheimer, Caitlin McVey, Ellsworth, Misti, Ferguson, Lance, Boston, Kelley, Haltiwanger, Brett, Pavlovitch, Scott, Warren, Mindy, Patel, Bela, Katz, Jeffrey, Ostrosky-Zeichner, Luis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7572504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33091511
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.10.011
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author Weinheimer, Caitlin McVey
Ellsworth, Misti
Ferguson, Lance
Boston, Kelley
Haltiwanger, Brett
Pavlovitch, Scott
Warren, Mindy
Patel, Bela
Katz, Jeffrey
Ostrosky-Zeichner, Luis
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Ellsworth, Misti
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description The SARS-CoV2 pandemic has created extreme shortages of N95 mask necessitating the need for rapid development of reuse and reprocessing plans. Our aim was to create a process to recapture, reprocess, and redistribute N95 masks using hydrogen peroxide vapor as a real time disinfection method within a large hospital system. We were able to recapture and reprocess 29, 706 N95 masks using hydrogen peroxide vapor with approximately 25% loss due to damage.
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spelling pubmed-75725042020-10-20 Reprocessing N95s with hydrogen peroxide vaporization: A robust system from collection to dispensing Weinheimer, Caitlin McVey Ellsworth, Misti Ferguson, Lance Boston, Kelley Haltiwanger, Brett Pavlovitch, Scott Warren, Mindy Patel, Bela Katz, Jeffrey Ostrosky-Zeichner, Luis Am J Infect Control Brief Report The SARS-CoV2 pandemic has created extreme shortages of N95 mask necessitating the need for rapid development of reuse and reprocessing plans. Our aim was to create a process to recapture, reprocess, and redistribute N95 masks using hydrogen peroxide vapor as a real time disinfection method within a large hospital system. We were able to recapture and reprocess 29, 706 N95 masks using hydrogen peroxide vapor with approximately 25% loss due to damage. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-04 2020-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7572504/ /pubmed/33091511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.10.011 Text en © 2020 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 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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Weinheimer, Caitlin McVey
Ellsworth, Misti
Ferguson, Lance
Boston, Kelley
Haltiwanger, Brett
Pavlovitch, Scott
Warren, Mindy
Patel, Bela
Katz, Jeffrey
Ostrosky-Zeichner, Luis
Reprocessing N95s with hydrogen peroxide vaporization: A robust system from collection to dispensing
title Reprocessing N95s with hydrogen peroxide vaporization: A robust system from collection to dispensing
title_full Reprocessing N95s with hydrogen peroxide vaporization: A robust system from collection to dispensing
title_fullStr Reprocessing N95s with hydrogen peroxide vaporization: A robust system from collection to dispensing
title_full_unstemmed Reprocessing N95s with hydrogen peroxide vaporization: A robust system from collection to dispensing
title_short Reprocessing N95s with hydrogen peroxide vaporization: A robust system from collection to dispensing
title_sort reprocessing n95s with hydrogen peroxide vaporization: a robust system from collection to dispensing
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7572504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33091511
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.10.011
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