{"id":8744,"date":"2020-08-05T11:19:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T18:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8744"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:20:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:20:34","slug":"reprocessing-filtering-facepiece-respirators-in-primary-care-using-medical-autoclave-prospective-bench-to-bedside-single-centre-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/05\/reprocessing-filtering-facepiece-respirators-in-primary-care-using-medical-autoclave-prospective-bench-to-bedside-single-centre-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprocessing Filtering Facepiece Respirators in Primary Care Using Medical Autoclave: Prospective, Bench-to-Bedside, Single-Centre Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"11\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Thirty-three respirators were decontaminated with a medical autoclave up to three times and tested for loss of structural integrity and ability to filter small particles. FFP-2 respirators performed well: all the samples retained their shape and at least 90% of their filtering capacity after one, two, and three decontaminations, suggesting that they might be successfully used and cleaned repeatedly in primary care settings.\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\">Harskamp<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (Aug 4, 2020). Reprocessing Filtering Facepiece Respirators in Primary Care Using Medical Autoclave: Prospective, Bench-to-Bedside, Single-Centre Study. BMJ Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmjopen-2020-039454\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmjopen-2020-039454<\/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>Thirty-three respirators were decontaminated with a medical autoclave up to three times and tested for loss of structural integrity and ability to filter small particles. FFP-2 respirators performed well: all the samples retained their shape and at least 90% of their filtering capacity after one, two, and three decontaminations, suggesting that they might be successfully&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/05\/reprocessing-filtering-facepiece-respirators-in-primary-care-using-medical-autoclave-prospective-bench-to-bedside-single-centre-study\/\">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-8744","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\/8744","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=8744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8745,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions\/8745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8744"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}