{"id":8128,"date":"2020-07-13T09:34:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8128"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:34:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:34:58","slug":"decontamination-and-reuse-of-n95-filtering-facemask-respirators-a-systematic-review-of-the-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/13\/decontamination-and-reuse-of-n95-filtering-facemask-respirators-a-systematic-review-of-the-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Decontamination and Reuse of N95 Filtering Facemask Respirators: A Systematic Review of the Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"43\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A systematic review (n=14 studies) found that ultraviolet germicidal irradiation and vaporized hydrogen peroxide were the most promising decontamination methods for N95 filtered face masks, based on ability to reduce pathogen load while maintaining filtration function and without residual toxicity.\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\">Rodriguez-Martinez et al. (July 2020). Decontamination and Reuse of N95 Filtering Facemask Respirators: A Systematic Review of the Literature. American Journal of Infection Control.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ajic.2020.07.004\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ajic.2020.07.004<\/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>A systematic review (n=14 studies) found that ultraviolet germicidal irradiation and vaporized hydrogen peroxide were the most promising decontamination methods for N95 filtered face masks, based on ability to reduce pathogen load while maintaining filtration function and without residual toxicity.\u00a0\u00a0 Rodriguez-Martinez et al. (July 2020). Decontamination and Reuse of N95 Filtering Facemask Respirators: A Systematic&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/13\/decontamination-and-reuse-of-n95-filtering-facemask-respirators-a-systematic-review-of-the-literature\/\">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-8128","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\/8128","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=8128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8129,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions\/8129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8128"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}