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Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

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  • Alternative Title:
    Disaster Med Public Health Prep
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    N95 respirators are personal protective equipment most often used to control exposures to infections transmitted via the airborne route. Supplies of N95 respirators can become depleted during pandemics or when otherwise in high demand. In this paper, we offer strategies for optimizing supplies of N95 respirators in health care settings while maximizing the level of protection offered to health care personnel when there is limited supply in the United States during the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic. The strategies are intended for use by professionals who manage respiratory protection programs, occupational health services, and infection prevention programs in health care facilities to protect health care personnel from job-related risks of exposure to infectious respiratory illnesses. Consultation with federal, state, and local public health officials is also important. We use the framework of surge capacity and the occupational health and safety hierarchy of controls approach to discuss specific engineering control, administrative control, and personal protective equipment measures that may help in optimizing N95 respirator supplies.
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    Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2020; :1-12
  • Pubmed ID:
    32423515
  • Pubmed Central ID:
    PMC7303467
  • Document Type:
    Journal Article
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    urn:sha256:ebc70ba866269d487b9cd40022d8ab96c95281cb13e1f955ac4811ed99d8a559
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