Decontaminating N95 Respirators for Reuse in a Hospital Setting.
Healthc Q
; 23(4): 35-38, 2021 Jan.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1040174
ABSTRACT
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.
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Descontaminación
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Contaminación de Equipos
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Equipo Reutilizado
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Equipos y Suministros de Hospitales
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Respiradores N95
Tipo de estudio:
Ensayo controlado aleatorizado
Límite:
Humanos
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Healthc Q
Asunto de la revista:
Hospitales
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Servicios de Salud
Año:
2021
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
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