ReviewThe Journal of hospital infection2020
Evidence for decontamination of single-use filtering facepiece respirators.
Review in The Journal of hospital infection, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Reusable Personal Protective Equipment Viewed Through the Lens of Sustainability.International dental journal · 2024Review
- Engineered Electrically Heatable Face Masks for Direct Inactivation of Aerosolized Viruses on the Mask Surfaces.ACS ES&T engineering · 2024Article
- Bioburden Variation of Filtering Face Piece Respirators over Time: A Preliminary Study.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The face behind the Covid-19 mask - A comprehensive review.Environmental technology & innovation · 2022Review
- Generalized Kubelka's theory for light transmission in multilayer materials and its application for UV light penetration in filtering facepiece respirators.Journal of biophotonics · 2022Article
- An Experimental Analysis of Five Household Equipment-Based Methods for Decontamination and Reuse of Surgical Masks.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Large-scale decontamination of disposable FFP2 and FFP3 respirators by hydrogen peroxide vapour, Finland, April to June 2020.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2022Article
- Decontamination of Geobacillus Stearothermophilus using the Arca Aerosolized Hydrogen Peroxide decontamination system.PloS one · 2022Article
- Decontamination of High-Efficiency Mask Filters From Respiratory Pathogens Including SARS-CoV-2 by Non-thermal Plasma.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Article
- Conceptualizing a novel Hybrid Decontamination System (HDS) based on UV/HEnvironmental challenges (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2021Review
- PPE decontamination to overcome PPE shortage in rural area during pandemic.Infection prevention in practice · 2021Article
- Case series of COVID-19 patients from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Area in China.World journal of clinical cases · 2021Article
- Reuse of face masks among adults in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Assessment of the impact of multiple mild-steam decontaminations on the protection performance of disposable KN95 filtering facepiece respirators.Infection prevention in practice · 2021Article
- Face masks against COVID-19: Standards, efficacy, testing and decontamination methods.Advances in colloid and interface science · 2021Review
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- Plastics in the time of COVID-19 pandemic: Protector or polluter?The Science of the total environment · 2021Review
- Decontamination of N95 respirators against SARS-CoV-2: A scoping review.Journal of dentistry · 2021Article
- Face Masks in the New COVID-19 Normal: Materials, Testing, and Perspectives.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2020Review
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Abstract
Single-use filtering face respirators (FFRs) are critical pieces of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers treating patients with suspected upper respiratory tract pathogens. Experiences during pandemics in the 2000s, as well as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-2-CoV-2, have highlighted concerns over the pressures that sustained respiratory virus pandemics may have on supplies of FFRs globally. Decontamination of FFRs has been posited as one solution to support the re-use of FFRs with a growing body of literature over the last 10+ years beginning to examine both the efficacy of disinfection of contaminated FFRs but also the impact of the decontamination process on the FFR's performance. Physical and chemical methods of decontamination have been tested for treatment of FFRs with ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, sterilization by steam, ethylene oxide and vaporous hydrogen peroxide, demonstrating the most promising results thus far. Many of these methods utilize existing equipment that may already be available in hospitals and could be re-purposed for FFR decontamination. Importantly, some methods may also be replicated on household equipment, broadening the utility of FFR decontamination across a range of healthcare settings. Utilizing techniques to experimentally contaminate FFRs with a range of microorganisms, most decontamination methods appear to reduce the risk of the mask as a source of infection to the wearer and others to negligible levels. The performance of the filter, especially the efficiency of particle penetration following treatment, varied greatly depending on the processing method as well as the model of the filter itself, however. Urgent regulatory body-supported research is required to endorse the routine decontamination of FFRs. In emergency settings, these methods should nevertheless be carefully considered as one strategy to address potential shortfalls in supplies of FFRs for healthcare workers.
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