Personal protective equipment during the coronavirus disease (COVID) 2019 pandemic–a narrative review

TM Cook - Anaesthesia, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Personal protective equipment has become an important and emotive subject during the
current coronavirus disease 2019 epidemic. Coronavirus disease 2019 is predominantly …

[HTML][HTML] Coughs and sneezes: their role in transmission of respiratory viral infections, including SARS-CoV-2

R Dhand, J Li - American journal of respiratory and critical care …, 2020 - atsjournals.org
The slogan “Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases” was coined in the United States during
the last great flu pandemic between 1918 and 1920 to highlight the role of coughs and …

[HTML][HTML] Face masks and respirators in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic: A review of current materials, advances and future perspectives

K O'Dowd, KM Nair, P Forouzandeh, S Mathew, J Grant… - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
The outbreak of COVID-19 has spread rapidly across the globe, greatly affecting how
humans as a whole interact, work and go about their daily life. One of the key pieces of …

Protective face masks: current status and future trends

A Tuñón-Molina, K Takayama… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Management of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has relied in part on the use of personal protective equipment …

Facing COVID-19 in ophthalmology department

MR Romano, A Montericcio, C Montalbano… - Current eye …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: To provide useful guidelines, targeted at ophthalmology professionals, to minimize
COVID-19 infection of both health-care workers and patients. Methods: In this review we …

Biodegradable and multifunctional surgical face masks: A brief review on demands during COVID-19 pandemic, recent developments, and future perspectives

V Babaahmadi, H Amid, M Naeimirad… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Providing the greater public with the current coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines is time-
consuming and research-intensive; intermediately, some essential ways to reduce the …

Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff

JH Verbeek, B Rajamaki, S Ijaz… - Cochrane database …, 2020 - cochranelibrary.com
Background In epidemics of highly infectious diseases, such as Ebola, severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS), or coronavirus (COVID‐19), healthcare workers (HCW) are at …

[HTML][HTML] Personal protective equipment for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

SH Park - Infection & chemotherapy, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has posed a challenge for
healthcare systems, and healthcare workers (HCWs) are at high risk of exposure. Protecting …

[HTML][HTML] An antiviral trap made of protein nanofibrils and iron oxyhydroxide nanoparticles

A Palika, A Armanious, A Rahimi, C Medaglia… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Minimizing the spread of viruses in the environment is the first defence line when fighting
outbreaks and pandemics, but the current COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates how difficult …

The role of fit testing N95/FFP2/FFP3 masks: a narrative review

A Regli, A Sommerfield… - Anaesthesia, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
For healthcare workers performing aerosol‐generating procedures during the COVID‐19
pandemic, well fitted filtering facepiece respirators, for example, N95/FFP2 or N99/FFP3 …