Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34118013›Full record

ReviewPhotochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology2021

Decontamination of respirators amid shortages due to SARS-CoV-2.

Ravinder Thaper, Brendan Fagen, Jonghwa Oh

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Review in Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ravinder ThaperSamuel Ginn College of Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA.
Brendan FagenSamuel Ginn College of Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA.
Jonghwa OhDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294-0022, USA. jonghwa@uab.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6017-0963
Auburn University · USUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pandemic created by SARS-CoV-2 has caused a shortage in the supplies of N95 filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs), disposable respirators with at least 95% efficiency to remove non-oily airborne particles, due to increasing cases all over the world. The current article reviewed various possible decontamination methods for FFR reuse including ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), hydrogen peroxide vapor (HPV), microwave-generated steam (MGS), hydrogen peroxide gas plasma (HPGP), and 70% or higher ethanol solution. HPV decontamination was effective against bacterial spores (6 log

Indexed as

COVID-19BacteriaDecontaminationDisinfectionEthanolHumansHydrogen PeroxideMicrowavesN95 RespiratorsUltraviolet RaysVirusesEthanolHydrogen PeroxideCOVID-19DecontaminationFiltering facepiece respirator (FFR)Hydrogen peroxide vapor (HPV)N95

Identifiers

PMID34118013
PMCPMC8196272
OpenAlexW3171676706

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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