ReviewPolymers2021
Ultraviolet-C as a Viable Reprocessing Method for Disposable Masks and Filtering Facepiece Respirators.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- [Hygiene and infection prevention in disaster events with decompensated crisis treatment].Unfallchirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- Impact of ultraviolet radiation on filtering facepiece respirators and SARS-CoV-2 detection.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Exploring the need for surgical face masks in operating room: a comprehensive literature review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Review
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- Wind of change: Better air for microbial environmental control.Case studies in chemical and environmental engineering · 2022Article
- Design and Analysis of a Novel Ultraviolet-C Device for Surgical Face Mask Disinfection.ACS omega · 2022Article
- One year of surgical mask testing at the University of Bologna labs: Lessons learned from data analysis.Separation and purification technology · 2022Article
- Device for Identifying the UV Emission Spectrum.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Development of an Ultraviolet-C Irradiation Room in a Public Portuguese Hospital for Safe Re-Utilization of Personal Protective Respirators.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- A Comprehensive Analysis of the UVC LEDs' Applications and Decontamination Capability.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- In-House Filtration Efficiency Assessment of Vapor Hydrogen Peroxide Decontaminated Filtering Facepiece Respirators (FFRs).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
In normal conditions, discarding single-use personal protective equipment after use is the rule for its users due to the possibility of being infected, particularly for masks and filtering facepiece respirators. When the demand for these protective tools is not satisfied by the companies supplying them, a scenario of shortages occurs, and new strategies must arise. One possible approach regards the disinfection of these pieces of equipment, but there are multiple methods. Analyzing these methods, Ultraviolet-C (UV-C) becomes an exciting option, given its germicidal capability. This paper aims to describe the state-of-the-art for UV-C sterilization in masks and filtering facepiece respirators. To achieve this goal, we adopted a systematic literature review in multiple databases added to a snowball method to make our sample as robust as possible and encompass a more significant number of studies. We found that UV-C's germicidal capability is just as good as other sterilization methods. Combining this characteristic with other advantages makes UV-C sterilization desirable compared to other methods, despite its possible disadvantages.
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