Impact of multiple consecutive donnings on filtering facepiece respirator fit

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 375-380

  Bergman, Michael S ^a   Viscusi, Dennis J ^b   Zhuang, Ziqing ^b   Palmiero, Andrew J ^a   Powell, Jeffrey B ^b   Shaffer, Ronald E ^b  

^a URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fit test; Health care worker; Multiple donnings; N95 respirator fit; Respirator reuse; Respiratory protection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACE MASK; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VENTILATOR;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT REUSE; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RESPIRATORY PROTECTIVE DEVICES;

EID: 84860360045     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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