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: Received: 16 April 2020 / Approved: 17 April 2020 / Online: 17 April 2020 (02:23:48 CEST)
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: Received: 29 April 2020 / Approved: 30 April 2020 / Online: 30 April 2020 (05:25:10 CEST)
Version 3
: Received: 9 July 2020 / Approved: 11 July 2020 / Online: 11 July 2020 (04:16:17 CEST)
How to cite:
Nicholson, K.; Henke-Adams, A.; Henke, D. M.; Kravitz, A. V.; Gay, H. A. Modified Full-Face Snorkel Mask as COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment: Quantitative Results. Preprints2020, 2020040293
Nicholson, K.; Henke-Adams, A.; Henke, D. M.; Kravitz, A. V.; Gay, H. A. Modified Full-Face Snorkel Mask as COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment: Quantitative Results. Preprints 2020, 2020040293
Nicholson, K.; Henke-Adams, A.; Henke, D. M.; Kravitz, A. V.; Gay, H. A. Modified Full-Face Snorkel Mask as COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment: Quantitative Results. Preprints2020, 2020040293
APA Style
Nicholson, K., Henke-Adams, A., Henke, D. M., Kravitz, A. V., & Gay, H. A. (2020). Modified Full-Face Snorkel Mask as COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment: Quantitative Results. Preprints. https://doi.org/
Chicago/Turabian Style
Nicholson, K., Alexxai V. Kravitz and Hiram A. Gay. 2020 "Modified Full-Face Snorkel Mask as COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment: Quantitative Results" Preprints. https://doi.org/
Abstract
The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) [1]. COVID-19 is currently the leading cause of death in the United States[2]. Health care providers caring for COVID-19 patients or at high risk of being exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus benefit from a face shield to protect against aerosol droplets that could hit the face and minimize the chance of inadvertently touching the face with contaminated hands, and air filtration to filter out aerosolized SARS-CoV-2. Adapting commercially available full-faced snorkel masks has been proposed as an alternative to narrow the gap in PPE [3]. Here we explore a full-faced snorkel mask with commercially available particulate filters.
Keywords
COVID-19; mask; respirator; coronavirus; 3D Printing; N95; personal protective equipment (PPE)
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Commenter: Hiram Gay
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author