PPE decontamination to overcome PPE shortage in rural area during pandemic

Despite remarkable developments in healthcare, the world was not ready to stop the spread of the novel COVID-19 pandemic almost a century after the great influenza pandemic. The explosive increase in the number of patients stalled the healthcare system, and the first and apparent issue was the short...

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Autores principales: Kharbat, Abdurrahman, Abla, Habib, Alkul, Mahmud, Kile, Ranger, White, Justin, Webb, Cynthia Reinoso, Presley, Steven M., Kang, Min H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8084309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34316584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2021.100145
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author Kharbat, Abdurrahman
Abla, Habib
Alkul, Mahmud
Kile, Ranger
White, Justin
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Presley, Steven M.
Kang, Min H.
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description Despite remarkable developments in healthcare, the world was not ready to stop the spread of the novel COVID-19 pandemic almost a century after the great influenza pandemic. The explosive increase in the number of patients stalled the healthcare system, and the first and apparent issue was the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE). Our group established a system using a hydrogen peroxide vaporization method to decontaminate and reuse N95 respirators for healthcare workers. The system decontaminated over 12,000 units of PPE to cover institutions in West Texas. This service provided support at the most needed time during the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-80843092021-05-03 PPE decontamination to overcome PPE shortage in rural area during pandemic Kharbat, Abdurrahman Abla, Habib Alkul, Mahmud Kile, Ranger White, Justin Webb, Cynthia Reinoso Presley, Steven M. Kang, Min H. Infect Prev Pract Short Report Despite remarkable developments in healthcare, the world was not ready to stop the spread of the novel COVID-19 pandemic almost a century after the great influenza pandemic. The explosive increase in the number of patients stalled the healthcare system, and the first and apparent issue was the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE). Our group established a system using a hydrogen peroxide vaporization method to decontaminate and reuse N95 respirators for healthcare workers. The system decontaminated over 12,000 units of PPE to cover institutions in West Texas. This service provided support at the most needed time during the pandemic. Elsevier 2021-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8084309/ /pubmed/34316584 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2021.100145 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34316584
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