{"id":10610,"date":"2021-12-15T17:39:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T17:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/2021\/12\/15\/evaluation-of-n95-respirator-ultraviolet-decontamination-and-clinical-reuse-with-quantitative-fit-testing\/"},"modified":"2021-12-15T17:39:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T17:39:40","slug":"evaluation-of-n95-respirator-ultraviolet-decontamination-and-clinical-reuse-with-quantitative-fit-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/2021\/12\/15\/evaluation-of-n95-respirator-ultraviolet-decontamination-and-clinical-reuse-with-quantitative-fit-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation of N95 respirator ultraviolet decontamination and clinical reuse with quantitative fit testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wanner GK, Ader D, Caplan R, Padaki AS, Ravert D, Drees M<\/p>\n<p>Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2021 May;():1-3<\/p>\n<p>PMID: <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33934738\" title=\"\">33934738<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>The supply of N95 respirators has been severely strained by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We used quantitative fit-testing to evaluate 16 participants and 45 respirators through up to 4 rounds of ultraviolet decontamination and clinical reuse. The mean fit-test failure rate was 29.7%, and the probability of failure increased through N95 reuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanner GK, Ader D, Caplan R, Padaki AS, Ravert D, Drees M Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2021 May;():1-3 PMID: 33934738 Abstract The supply of N95 respirators has been severely strained by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We used quantitative fit-testing to evaluate 16 participants and 45 respirators through up to 4 rounds of ultraviolet<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/2021\/12\/15\/evaluation-of-n95-respirator-ultraviolet-decontamination-and-clinical-reuse-with-quantitative-fit-testing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evaluation of N95 respirator ultraviolet decontamination and clinical reuse with quantitative fit testing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireach"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}