Reusing filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) has been suggested as a strategy to conserve
available supplies for home and healthcare environments during an influenza pandemic …

OSHA authority and responsibility have led to the requirement that health care workers
potentially exposed to patients with active tuberculosis in situations where engineering …

Angela S. Andrews is a physical scientist, Meghan Kiederer is a health communications
intern, and Megan L. Casey is a nurse epidemiologist, all at the National Personal Protective …

BACKGROUND: Airborne infection isolation rooms (AIIRs) help prevent the spread of
infectious agents in hospitals. The performance of 678 AIIRs was evaluated and compared …

When I was a resident in the early 1970s we did not wear gloves very often, and we did not
have needleless iv systems or safety needles, and one of my coworkers died of fulminant …

The concurrent use of N95 filtering facepiece respirators with powered air-purifying
respirators during aerosol-generating medical procedures in patients with severe respiratory …

Objective We aimed to examine the efficacy of medical masks and respirators in protecting
against respiratory infections using pooled data from two homogenous randomised control …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an acute shortage of regulation-tested
masks. Many of the alternatives available to hospitals have not been certified, leaving …

Background: Concerns have been expressed about risk of exposure to exhaled aerosols to
ICU personnel. AIM: To quantify amount of aerosol collected at the exhaust outlet of …

Objective. To describe rates and pathogen distribution of device-associated infections (DAIs)
in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) patients and compare differences in infection rates by …