How to Produce Cheap and Easy Custom-Made Sterilizable Filtering Facepiece 2/3 Masks for Healthcare Providers During Pandemic COVID-19 Emergency.
J Craniofac Surg
; 31(6): e640-e642, 2020 Sep.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1052239
ABSTRACT
On January 8, 2020, a novel coronavirus was officially announced as the causative pathogen of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.On February 26, COVID-19 has been recognized in 34 countries, with a total of 80,239 laboratory-confirmed patients and 2700 deaths.Protecting healthcare workers from infectious hazards is paramount to ensuring their safety in delivering health care.In addition, being able to protect healthcare workers, constituting the front-line response against high-threat respiratory pathogens, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, is important for reducing secondary transmission in healthcare-associated outbreaks.Authors present a simple, reliable, and cheap protocol to produce a custom-made sterilizable filtering facepiece 2/3 masks for healthcare providers during pandemic COVID-19 emergency.
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Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Health Personnel
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Coronavirus Infections
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Pandemics
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Betacoronavirus
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Masks
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
J Craniofac Surg
Journal subject:
Dentistry
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
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