Novel approach to deployment of crisis situation supply of N95 respirator models in a healthcare system

Given supply constraints of N95s in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare facilities have turned to extended use protocols and new sources of N95s. Because fit testing every employee for every new mask is not feasible, our Infection Prevention Department developed a method for r...

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Autores principales: Lane, Morgan, Kraft, Colleen S., Ayers, Marie, Love, Kari, Brownsword, Erik, Sexton, Mary Elizabeth
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/PMC8800390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33159996
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.11.001
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author Lane, Morgan
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description Given supply constraints of N95s in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare facilities have turned to extended use protocols and new sources of N95s. Because fit testing every employee for every new mask is not feasible, our Infection Prevention Department developed a method for rapid deployment of new N95s.
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spelling pubmed-88003902022-01-31 Novel approach to deployment of crisis situation supply of N95 respirator models in a healthcare system Lane, Morgan Kraft, Colleen S. Ayers, Marie Love, Kari Brownsword, Erik Sexton, Mary Elizabeth Am J Infect Control Brief Report Given supply constraints of N95s in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare facilities have turned to extended use protocols and new sources of N95s. Because fit testing every employee for every new mask is not feasible, our Infection Prevention Department developed a method for rapid deployment of new N95s. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-04 2020-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8800390/ /pubmed/33159996 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.11.001 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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