Elastomeric Respirators for COVID-19 and the Next Respiratory Virus Pandemic: Essential Design Elements
| العنوان: | Elastomeric Respirators for COVID-19 and the Next Respiratory Virus Pandemic: Essential Design Elements |
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| المؤلفون: | Sai Krishna M, T. Andrew Bowdle, Srdjan Jelacic, Marty Cohen, L. Silvia Munoz-Price, Lisa M Brosseau |
| المصدر: | Anesthesiology. 135:951-962 |
| بيانات النشر: | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Ventilators, Mechanical, business.product_category, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), business.industry, Health Personnel, COVID-19, Design elements and principles, Equipment Design, Computer security, computer.software_genre, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Elastomers, Occupational Exposure, Pandemic, Equipment Reuse, Humans, Medicine, Respiratory virus, Respirator, business, Pandemics, computer |
| الوصف: | Respiratory viruses are transmitted via respiratory particles that are emitted when people breath, speak, cough, or sneeze. These particles span the size spectrum from visible droplets to airborne particles of hundreds of nanometers. Barrier face coverings (“cloth masks”) and surgical masks are loose-fitting and provide limited protection from airborne particles since air passes around the edges of the mask as well as through the filtering material. Respirators, which fit tightly to the face, provide more effective respiratory protection. Although healthcare workers have relied primarily on disposable filtering facepiece respirators (such as N95) during the COVID-19 pandemic, reusable elastomeric respirators have significant potential advantages for the COVID-19 and future respiratory virus pandemics. However, currently available elastomeric respirators were not designed primarily for healthcare or pandemic use and require further development to improve their suitability for this application. The authors believe that the development, implementation, and stockpiling of improved elastomeric respirators should be an international public health priority. |
| تدمد: | 1528-1175 0003-3022 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/aln.0000000000004005 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::e68a381019215c5d7e44e30db1f780e6 https://doi.org/10.1097/aln.0000000000004005 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....e68a381019215c5d7e44e30db1f780e6 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15281175 00033022 |
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| DOI: | 10.1097/aln.0000000000004005 |