{"id":8672,"date":"2020-07-31T10:33:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T17:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8672"},"modified":"2021-04-06T10:34:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T17:34:29","slug":"decontamination-and-reuse-of-surgical-masks-and-n95-filtering-facepiece-respirators-during-covid-19-pandemic-a-systematic-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/31\/decontamination-and-reuse-of-surgical-masks-and-n95-filtering-facepiece-respirators-during-covid-19-pandemic-a-systematic-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Decontamination and Reuse of Surgical Masks and N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"12\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Seresirikachorn\u00a0et al. evaluated the effectiveness of existing decontamination methods of surgical masks and N95 respirators with a systematic review of 15 studies\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">published before April 11, 2020<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that described 14 decontamination methods. They find a low level of evidence supporting the use of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">four of the methods<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0for decontamination and reuse of N95 masks<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, including\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, moist heat, microwave<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">generated steam, and hydrogen peroxide vapor<\/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;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"12\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">None of the studies assessed surgical masks or<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0contamination with<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 specifically.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Seresirikachorn\u00a0et al. (July 30, 2020). Decontamination and Reuse of Surgical Masks and N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review. Infection Control &amp; Hospital Epidemiology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2020.379\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2020.379<\/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>Seresirikachorn\u00a0et al. evaluated the effectiveness of existing decontamination methods of surgical masks and N95 respirators with a systematic review of 15 studies\u00a0published before April 11, 2020\u00a0that described 14 decontamination methods. They find a low level of evidence supporting the use of\u00a0four of the methods\u00a0for decontamination and reuse of N95 masks, including\u00a0ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, moist heat,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/31\/decontamination-and-reuse-of-surgical-masks-and-n95-filtering-facepiece-respirators-during-covid-19-pandemic-a-systematic-review\/\">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-8672","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\/8672","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=8672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8673,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions\/8673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8672"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}