Managing ICU surge during the COVID-19 crisis: rapid guidelines

S Aziz, YM Arabi, W Alhazzani, L Evans, G Citerio… - Intensive care …, 2020 - Springer
Given the rapidly changing nature of COVID-19, clinicians and policy makers require urgent
review and summary of the literature, and synthesis of evidence-based guidelines to inform …

[HTML][HTML] Unlocking the surge in demand for personal and protective equipment (PPE) and improvised face coverings arising from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) …

NJ Rowan, JG Laffey - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Currently, there is no effective vaccine for tackling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused
by SARS-CoV-2 with the occurrence of repeat waves of infection frequently stretching …

Disposable masks: Disinfection and sterilization for reuse, and non-certified manufacturing, in the face of shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic

JC Rubio-Romero, M del Carmen Pardo-Ferreira… - Safety science, 2020 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic is posing a huge global health threat. To deal with this problem, in
addition to research and work in the medical field, the main health measures being taken in …

Reusability comparison of melt-blown vs nanofiber face mask filters for use in the coronavirus pandemic

S Ullah, A Ullah, J Lee, Y Jeong… - ACS Applied nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Shortage of face masks is a current critical concern since the emergence of coronavirus-2 or
SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). In this work, we compared the melt-blown (MB) filter, which is …

Preliminary evaluation of the feasibility of using polypropylene fibres from COVID-19 single-use face masks to improve the mechanical properties of concrete

S Kilmartin-Lynch, M Saberian, J Li, R Roychand… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the ongoing global pandemic due to Coronavirus (COVID-19), the use of personal
protective equipment (PPE), specifically single-use surgical masks, have been on a sharp …

Face masks to combat coronavirus (covid-19)—processing, roles, requirements, efficacy, risk and Sustainability

MZ Rahman, ME Hoque, MR Alam, MA Rouf, SI Khan… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Increasingly prevalent respiratory infectious diseases (eg, COVID-19) have posed severe
threats to public health. Viruses including coronavirus, influenza, and so on can cause …

Decontamination and reuse of N95 filtering facemask respirators: a systematic review of the literature

CE Rodriguez-Martinez, MP Sossa-Briceño… - American journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Introduction As has happened in other emerging respiratory pandemics, demand for N95
filtering facemask respirators (FFRs) has far exceeded their manufacturing production and …

Challenges in handling COVID-19 waste and its management mechanism: A Review

BC Behera - Environmental nanotechnology, monitoring & …, 2021 - Elsevier
COVID-19, the novel corona virus has become a household name. The global COVID-19
outbreak, become a pandemic in early 2020, and spurred millions of life across the world …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of ultraviolet-C light and a high-level disinfection cabinet for decontamination of N95 respirators

JL Cadnum, DF Li, SN Redmond, AR John… - Pathogens and …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) including N95 respirators
are an urgent concern in the setting of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Decontamination of …

COVID-19: postmortem diagnostic and biosafety considerations

JM Lacy, EG Brooks, J Akers, D Armstrong… - The American journal …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
As a result of the 2019 novel human coronavirus (COVID-19) global spread, medical
examiner/coroner offices will inevitably encounter increased numbers of COVID-19–infected …