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Novel Approach to Deployment of Crisis Situation Supply of N95 Respirator Models in a Healthcare System

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Title

Novel Approach to Deployment of Crisis Situation Supply of N95 Respirator Models in a Healthcare System

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Given supply constraints of N95s in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare facilities have turned to extended use protocols and new sources of N95s.

Date

2020-11-04

Citation

Lane, Morgan, Colleen S. Kraft, Marie Ayers, Kari Love, Erik Brownsword, and Mary Elizabeth Sexton. 2020. "Novel Approach to Deployment of Crisis Situation Supply of N95 Respirator Models in a Healthcare System." American journal of infection control.

Abstract

Given supply constraints of N95s in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare facilities have turned to extended use protocols and new sources of N95s. Because fit testing every employee for every new mask is not feasible, our Infection Prevention Department developed a method for rapid deployment of new N95s.

Keywords: N95s; infection prevention; pandemic; rapid deployment.

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