Decontaminating N95 Respirators for Reuse in a Hospital Setting.

Autor:	Chiu TA; A human factors specialist at Sinai Health in Toronto, ON. She specializes in human-centred design methods and is involved in mitigation of clinical and enterprise risks, clinical space redesign and new technology implementation at Mount Sinai Hospital and Bridgepoint Active Healthcare., Jeon J; The lead for the human factors team at Sinai Health in Toronto, ON, where she pioneers the application of human-centred design methods to health technology and facility redevelopment projects. Her team supports various high-risk system redesign initiatives across the organization., Edgell BJ; The manager of Facility Operations at The Centre for Phenogenomics (TCP) and Sinai Health in Toronto, ON. She is responsible for the daily operations of the research vivarium at TCP and for facilitating research activity and services for the research personnel of the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and SickKids Research Institute., Bassi G; The director of the Medical Device Reprocessing Department at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, ON, where he supports daily operations and the planning and redevelopment of the future expansion of the department. He sits on the CSA Z314-18 Medical Device Reprocessing Standards Technical Committee and was the provincial director of Education for the Medical Device Reprocessing Association of Canada. He can be reached by e-mail at garry.bassi@sinaihealth.ca.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Healthcare quarterly (Toronto, Ont.) [Healthc Q] 2021 Jan; Vol. 23 (4), pp. 35-38.
DOI:	10.12927/hcq.2020.26395
Abstrakt:	With the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals in Canada and around the world have been forced to consider conservation strategies to ensure continued availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare providers. To mitigate critical PPE shortages, Sinai Health System (Sinai Health), a large academic healthcare institution in Canada, has developed and operationalized a standard operating procedure for the collection, decontamination and reuse of N95 respirators and other single-use PPE using a vaporized hydrogen peroxide decontamination method. Sinai Health has incorporated stringent quality assurance steps to ensure that the N95 respirators are successfully decontaminated without deformation and are safe to use. (Copyright © 2021 Longwoods Publishing.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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