Decontamination and reuse of filtering facepiece respirators

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
• Description:
  Updated April 30, 2020
  
  Disposable filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) are not approved for routine decontamination and reuse as standard of care. However, FFR decontamination and reuse may need to be considered as a crisis capacity strategy to ensure continued availability. Based on the limited research available, ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, vaporous hydrogen peroxide, and moist heat showed the most promise as potential methods to decontaminate FFRs. This document summarizes research about decontamination of FFRs before reuse.
  
  
• Content Notes:
  Introduction -- Crisis Standards of Care Decontamination Recommendations -- Vaporous hydrogen peroxide, ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, and moist heat are the most promising FFR decontamination methods -- Steam treatment and liquid hydrogen peroxide are promising methods with some limitations -- Decontamination methods that changed FFR performance or function -- Other methods for consideration which have not been tested -- References -- Other resources.
• Subjects:
  Coronavirus Infections/prevention & Control COVID-19 Decontamination Equipment Contamination/prevention & Control Equipment Reuse Filtration Respiratory Protective Devices
• Document Type:
  Webpage
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:bef149f7fb63bd3d4816eaf4369693eb698c48f40deafd3404f5c52949033efb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/90574/cdc_90574_DS1.pdf
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