Do industrial N95 respirators meet the requirements to be used in healthcare? - A possible solution to respirator shortages during the next pandemic

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Infect Control
• Personal Author:
  Rengasamy, Samy ; Sbarra, Deborah ; Horvatin, Matthew
• Description:
  Shortages of surgical N95 respirators (surgical N95 FFRs) can occur during a pandemic. To understand if industrial N95 FFRs have FDA required fluid penetration resistance and flammability, five NIOSH approved N95 models were evaluated using the ASTM F1862 method and flammability using the 16 CFR 1610 method, respectively. Three models passed both fluid penetration resistance and flammability indicating that some N95 models on the market can be used as surgical N95 FFRs during a pandemic.
• Subjects:
  Delivery Of Health Care Filtration Humans N95 Respirators Pandemics Respiratory Protective Devices Ventilators, Mechanical
• Source:
  Am J Infect Control. 49(9):1194-1196
• Pubmed ID:
  33774099
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10068805
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  49
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6857c311146c2e7a2e21881be5bf9c1033f2a3a88231cc6a9bcd73bc6cb20afb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/126578/cdc_126578_DS1.pdf
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