A Review of Decontamination Methods for Filtering Facepiece Respirators

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• Alternative Title:
  J Int Soc Respir Prot
• Personal Author:
  Bergman, Mike ; Fisher, Edward M. ; Heimbuch, Brian K.
• Description:
  During the current COVID-19 infectious disease pandemic, the demand for NIOSH-approved filtering facepiece respirators (FFR) has exceeded supplies and decontamination and reuse of FFRs has been implemented by various user groups. FFR decontamination and reuse is only intended to be implemented as a crisis capacity strategy. This paper provides a review of decontamination procedures in the published literature and calls attention to their benefits and limitations. In most cases, the data are limited to a few FFR models and a limited number of decontamination cycles. Institutions planning to implement a decontamination method must understand its limitations in terms of the degree of inactivation of the intended microorganisms and the treatment's effects on the fit and filtration of the device.
• Keywords:
  Decontamination Filtering Facepiece Respirator N95 Respirator Respirator Reuse
• Source:
  J Int Soc Respir Prot. 37(2):71-86
• Pubmed ID:
  33268915
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7707143
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  37
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:173ce3f5e958ad4b518740b8adf23e423cb97416d9c6a7d102b6765d32a8112eef888536d4927013eb1d7d623386c4428756edd72d8cde13ecea221962439a72
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/98469/cdc_98469_DS1.pdf
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