Open AccessHow to Produce Cheap and Easy Custom-Made Sterilizable Filtering Facepiece 2/3 Masks for Healthcare Providers During Pandemic COVID-19 Emergency
Author(s) -
Valentino Vellone,
Tito Matteo Marianetti,
Luca Di Renzo,
Alessandro Ricci,
Federico Bocciolesi,
Valerio Ramieri
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the journal of craniofacial surgery/the journal of craniofacial surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1536-3732
pISSN - 1049-2275
DOI - 10.1097/scs.0000000000006696
Subject(s) - pandemic , health care , covid-19 , outbreak , medicine , medical emergency , infection control , coronavirus , protocol (science) , infectious disease (medical specialty) , intensive care medicine , disease , virology , alternative medicine , pathology , political science , law
On January 8, 2020, a novel coronavirus was officially announced as the causative pathogen of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.On February 26, COVID-19 has been recognized in 34 countries, with a total of 80,239 laboratory-confirmed patients and 2700 deaths.Protecting healthcare workers from infectious hazards is paramount to ensuring their safety in delivering health care.In addition, being able to protect healthcare workers, constituting the front-line response against high-threat respiratory pathogens, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, is important for reducing secondary transmission in healthcare-associated outbreaks.Authors present a simple, reliable, and cheap protocol to produce a custom-made sterilizable filtering facepiece 2/3 masks for healthcare providers during pandemic COVID-19 emergency.