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Use of medical face masks versus particulate respirators as a component of personal protective equipment for health care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

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العنوان: Use of medical face masks versus particulate respirators as a component of personal protective equipment for health care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
المؤلفون: Conly, John, Seto, W. H., Pittet, Didier, Holmes, Alison, Chu, May, Hunter, Paul R., WHO Infection Prevention and Control Expert Group for COVID-19
المصدر: Antimicrobial resistance and infection control, 9(1):126
Antimicrobial resistance and infection control, Vol. 9, No 1 (2020) P. 126
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2020)
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
بيانات النشر: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
سنة النشر: 2020
مصطلحات موضوعية: 0301 basic medicine, Coronavirus Infections / virology, Pandemics / prevention & control, business.product_category, Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology, 0302 clinical medicine, Infection prevention, Contact, Health care, Pandemic, Pneumonia, Viral / transmission, Infection control, Pharmacology (medical), 030212 general & internal medicine, Transmission risks and rates, Respirator, ddc:616, Masks, N95 respirator, Infectious Diseases, Pneumonia, Viral / virology, Airborne, Medical emergency, Betacoronavirus / physiology, Microbiology (medical), Infection Control / methods, Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology, 030106 microbiology, Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control, Context (language use), China / epidemiology, Medical mask, Airborne transmission, lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases, Droplet, Coronavirus Infections / transmission, Infection Control / instrumentation, 03 medical and health sciences, medicine, Transmission, Humans, lcsh:RC109-216, Personal Protective Equipment, Personal protective equipment, Ventilators, Mechanical, SARS-CoV-2, business.industry, Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, COVID-19, Health Personnel / statistics & numerical data, medicine.disease, Commentary, business
الوصف: Currently available evidence supports that the predominant route of human-to-human transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 is through respiratory droplets and/or contact routes. The report by the World Health Organization (WHO) Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China supports person-to-person droplet and fomite transmission during close unprotected contact with the vast majority of the investigated infection clusters occurring within families, with a household secondary attack rate varying between 3 and 10%, a finding that is not consistent with airborne transmission. The reproduction number (R0) for the SARS-CoV-2 is estimated to be between 2.2–2.7, compatible with other respiratory viruses associated with a droplet/contact mode of transmission and very different than an airborne virus like measles with a R0 widely cited to be between 12 and 18. Based on the scientific evidence accumulated to date, our view is that SARS-CoV-2 is not spread by the airborne route to any significant extent and the use of particulate respirators offers no advantage over medical masks as a component of personal protective equipment for the routine care of patients with COVID-19 in the health care setting. Moreover, prolonged use of particulate respirators may result in unintended harms. In conjunction with appropriate hand hygiene, personal protective equipment (PPE) used by health care workers caring for patients with COVID-19 must be used with attention to detail and precision of execution to prevent lapses in adherence and active failures in the donning and doffing of the PPE.
وصف الملف: application/pdf
تدمد: 2047-2994
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::cb9346ba7a72de2e16de38ea8c09806f
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-020-00779-6
حقوق: OPEN
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi.dedup.....cb9346ba7a72de2e16de38ea8c09806f
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
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تدمد:20472994