Do industrial N95 respirators meet the requirements to be used in healthcare? - A possible solution to respirator shortages during the next pandemic
| Autor: | Matthew Horvatin, Samy Rengasamy, Deborah Sbarra |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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N95 Respirators Epidemiology Economic shortage Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pandemic Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Respiratory Protective Devices Respirator Pandemics Flammability 0303 health sciences Ventilators Mechanical Waste management 030306 microbiology business.industry Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Infectious Diseases business Delivery of Health Care Filtration |
| Zdroj: | Am J Infect Control |
| ISSN: | 0196-6553 |
| Popis: | Shortages of surgical N95 respirators (surgical N95 FFRs) can occur during a pandemic. To understand if industrial N95 FFRs have FDA required fluid penetration resistance and flammability, five NIOSH approved N95 models were evaluated using the ASTM F1862 method and flammability using the 16 CFR 1610 method, respectively. Three models passed both fluid penetration resistance and flammability indicating that some N95 models on the market can be used as surgical N95 FFRs during a pandemic. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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