Open AccessFiltering Facepiece Respirators for Healthcare Workers Protection in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Chee Tao Chang,
Philip Rajan,
Victor Chee Wai Hoe
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the malaysian journal of medical sciences/the malaysian journal of medical science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2180-4303
pISSN - 1394-195X
DOI - 10.21315/mjms2021.28.3.14
Subject(s) - respirator , personal protective equipment , covid-19 , pandemic , health care , medicine , medical emergency , aeronautics , engineering , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , political science , materials science , disease , pathology , outbreak , composite material , law
Protecting healthcare workers (HCWs) who are in the frontline during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic is paramount. The filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) or N95 respirator is one of the personal protective equipment (PPE) used to protect HCWs exposed to airborne pathogens in clinical practice or when performing aerosol generating procedures. The FFRs should be able to serve the intended purpose without causing additional health and safety hazards for the HCWs. The following commentary will provide some basic information on selecting correct FFRs and conducting fitness test.