Personal Protective Equipment for Coronavirus
General resources
- CDC fact sheet on respiratory protection against SARS
- 3M Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
- Drager Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
- 3M Eye Production for Infection Control
- Lancet: Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Respirator fit testing
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Filtering out Confusion: Frequently Asked Questions about Respiratory Protection, User Seal Check
- Australian 3M Fit Testing
- Australian Uvex Fit Testing
- USA CDC Healthcare Respiratory Protection Annual Fit-Testing for N95 Filtering Facepieces During the COVID-19 Outbreak
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CDC NIOSH: The Need for Fit Testing During Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreaks
- MJA 2020: Fit-testing of N95/P2-masks to protect health care workers
- The Essence of N95 Respirator Fit-Testing
Respirator papers
- Probability of fit failure with reuse of N95 mask respirators
- Respiratory Protection Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Quantitative Fit Test Outcomes for Five Type N95 Filtering-Facepiece Respirators
- Selecting models for a respiratory protection program: what can we learn from the scientific literature?
- Evaluation of the user seal check on gross leakage detection of 3 different designs of N95 filtering facepiece respirators
- The relationship between the filtering facepiece respirator fit and the facial anthropometric dimensions among Chinese people
- Lancet Respir Med: Particle sizes of infectious aerosols: implications for infection control
- Current guidelines for respiratory protection of Australian health care workers against COVID-19 are not adequate and national reporting of health worker infections is required
- Implementing fit testing for N95 filtering facepiece respirators: Practical information from a large cohort of hospital workers
- Predictive value of the user seal check in determining half-face respirator fit
- Sensitivity and specificity of the user-seal-check in determining the fit of N95 respirators
- Health Care Workers and Respiratory Protection: Is the User Seal Check a Surrogate for Respirator Fit-Testing?
- Small Changes Make a Big Difference in the Fit of N95 Respirators
- Diminished Speech Intelligibility Associated with Certain Types of Respirators Worn by Healthcare Workers
Reusable elastomeric respirators
- Elastomeric respirators are safer and more sustainable alternatives to disposable N95 masks during the coronavirus outbreak
- Implementation of an Elastomeric Mask Program as a Strategy to Eliminate Disposable N95 Mask Use and Resterilization: Results from a Large Academic Medical Center
- Press release re above
- JAMA, March 25, 2020: Training and Fit Testing of Health Care Personnel for Reusable Elastomeric Half-Mask Respirators Compared With Disposable N95 Respirators
- Implementing Reusable Elastomeric Respirators in Health Care Settings: Routine and Surge Use
- USA Public Health Emergency response 2017
Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPRs)
- The fight against COVID-19: disinfection protocol and turning over of CleanSpace® HALO™ in a Singapore Hospital
- 3M Using PAPRs in Clinical and Healthcare Settings
- CleanSpace Halo
Reusing single-use respirators
Airborne transmission of coronavirus
- NEJM: Evidence of Airborne Transmission of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Virus
- NEJM: Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1
- Nature: Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks
- BMJ: Two metres or one: what is the evidence for physical distancing in covid-19?
Cloth face coverings
- CDC: Use of Cloth Face Coverings to Help Slow the Spread of COVID-19
- Annals Int Med: Effectiveness of Surgical and Cotton Masks in Blocking SARS–CoV-2: A Controlled Comparison in 4 Patients
Eye protection
- Transocular Entry of Seasonal Influenza–Attenuated Virus Aerosols and the Efficacy of N95 Respirators, Surgical Masks, and Eye Protection in Humans
- The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus in tears
- Role of the Eye in Transmitting Human Coronavirus: What We Know and What We Do Not Know
- The use of eye-nose goggles to control nosocomial respiratory syncytial virus infection
Airway management guidelines
- Consensus statement: Safe Airway Society principles of airway management and tracheal intubation specific to the COVID-19 adult patient group
- Practical recommendations for critical care and anesthesiology teams caring for novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) patients
General
- Evaluating the protection afforded by surgical masks against influenza bioaerosols
- Performance of Facepiece Respirators and Surgical Masks Against Surgical Smoke: Simulated Workplace Protection Factor Study
- “Smoking guns”: Hazards generated by laser and electrocautery smoke
Opinion in the general media
- David Berger: Please stop calling healthcare workers ‘heroes’. It’s killing us
- David Berger: COVID-19 has exposed the weak safety culture in medicine