Controlled Heat and Humidity-Based Treatment for the Reuse of Personal Protective Equipment: A Pragmatic Proof-of-Concept to Address the Mass Shortage of Surgical Masks and N95/FFP2 Respirators and to Prevent the SARS-CoV2 Transmission

Controlled Heat and Humidity-Based Treatment for the Reuse of Personal Protective Equipment: A Pragmatic Proof-of-Concept to Address the Mass Shortage of Surgical Masks and N95/FFP2 Respirators and to Prevent the SARS-CoV2 Transmission

Background: The coronavirus infectious disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to an unprecedented shortage of healthcare resources, primarily personal protective equipment like surgical masks, and N95/filtering face piece type 2 (FFP2) respirators.Objective: Reuse of surgical masks and N95/FFP2 re...

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Main Authors: Louis Bernard, Guillaume Desoubeaux, Elsa Bodier-Montagutelli, Jeoffrey Pardessus, Déborah Brea, Laurine Allimonnier, Sébastien Eymieux, Pierre-Ivan Raynal, Virginie Vasseur, Laurent Vecellio, Ludovic Mathé, Antoine Guillon, Philippe Lanotte, Jérémie Pourchez, Paul O. Verhoeven, Stéphane Esnouf, Muriel Ferry, Nicolas Eterradossi, Yannick Blanchard, Paul Brown, Philippe Roingeard, Jean-Pierre Alcaraz, Philippe Cinquin, Mustapha Si-Tahar, Nathalie Heuzé-Vourc'h
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
Subjects:
SARS–CoV-2
facemask
recyclibility
surgical face masks
COVID-19
heating
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.584036/full

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