Modified N95 Mask Delivers High Inspired Oxygen Concentrations While Effectively Filtering Aerosolized Microparticles

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Mardimae, Alexandra ^a,b   Slessarev, Marat ^a,b   Han, Jay ^a,b   Sasano, Hiroshi ^c   Sasano, Nobuko ^c   Azami, Takafumi ^c   Fedorko, Ludwik ^a   Savage, Tim ^a   Fowler, Rob ^b   Fisher, Joseph A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FILTRATION; GAS MASK; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INSTRUMENTATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PARTICLE SIZE; PATIENT CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AEROSOLS; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; OXYGEN; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PARTICLE SIZE; PATIENT ISOLATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY PROTECTIVE DEVICES;

EID: 33748760894     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.06.039     Document Type: Article

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