{"id":7928,"date":"2020-07-02T20:03:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T03:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7928"},"modified":"2021-03-29T20:04:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T03:04:23","slug":"a-scalable-method-of-applying-heat-and-humidity-for-decontamination-of-n95-respirators-during-the-covid-19-crisis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/02\/a-scalable-method-of-applying-heat-and-humidity-for-decontamination-of-n95-respirators-during-the-covid-19-crisis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Scalable Method of Applying Heat and Humidity for Decontamination of N95 Respirators during the COVID-19 Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">There was\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">no significant\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">degradation of mask filtration efficiency<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in tests of the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">effect of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a heating\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">protocol\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for sterilizing masks prior to reuse in a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">selection of N95\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Filtering Facepiece Respirators<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Three out of five models passed fit testing after heating, and the two models that did not pass fit testing also had low fit scores prior to heating<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/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<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors conclude\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">this<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0heating\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">protocol\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">is practical for<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0application inside healthcare facilities.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/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\">Anderegg et al. (July 1, 2020). A Scalable Method of Applying Heat and Humidity for Decontamination of N95 Respirators during the COVID-19 Crisis.\u00a0PloS\u00a0One.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0234851\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0234851<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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>There was\u00a0no significant\u00a0degradation of mask filtration efficiency\u00a0in tests of the\u00a0effect of\u00a0a heating\u00a0protocol\u00a0for sterilizing masks prior to reuse in a\u00a0selection of N95\u00a0Filtering Facepiece Respirators. Three out of five models passed fit testing after heating, and the two models that did not pass fit testing also had low fit scores prior to heating.\u00a0\u00a0 The authors conclude\u00a0this\u00a0heating\u00a0protocol\u00a0is practical&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/02\/a-scalable-method-of-applying-heat-and-humidity-for-decontamination-of-n95-respirators-during-the-covid-19-crisis-2\/\">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":[20],"class_list":["post-7928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928","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=7928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7929,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions\/7929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7928"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}