{"id":7872,"date":"2020-06-30T17:45:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T00:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7872"},"modified":"2021-03-29T17:46:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T00:46:35","slug":"autoclave-sterilization-and-ethanol-treatment-of-re-used-surgical-masks-and-n95-respirators-during-covid-19-impact-on-their-performance-and-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/30\/autoclave-sterilization-and-ethanol-treatment-of-re-used-surgical-masks-and-n95-respirators-during-covid-19-impact-on-their-performance-and-integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Autoclave Sterilization and Ethanol Treatment of Re-Used Surgical Masks and N95 Respirators during COVID-19: Impact on Their Performance and Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Autoclave sterilization and a 70% ethanol treatment of surgical masks and N95 respirators are commonly utilized by hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic to conserve supplies. However, Gr<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">i<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nshpun et al. found that these methods compromise the efficiency, filter breathability, and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in some cases<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0cause physical damage to these masks.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors conclude that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">decontamination and re-use of surgical and N95 masks in hospitals\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">using these approaches may need to be\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">re-evaluated.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Grinshpun et al. (June 22, 2020). Autoclave Sterilization and Ethanol Treatment of Re-Used Surgical Masks and N95 Respirators during COVID-19: Impact on Their Performance and Integrity. The Journal of Hospital Infection.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jhin.2020.06.030\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jhin.2020.06.030<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autoclave sterilization and a 70% ethanol treatment of surgical masks and N95 respirators are commonly utilized by hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic to conserve supplies. However, Grinshpun et al. found that these methods compromise the efficiency, filter breathability, and,\u00a0in some cases,\u00a0cause physical damage to these masks.\u00a0The authors conclude that\u00a0decontamination and re-use of surgical and N95&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/30\/autoclave-sterilization-and-ethanol-treatment-of-re-used-surgical-masks-and-n95-respirators-during-covid-19-impact-on-their-performance-and-integrity\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-7872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7873,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions\/7873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}