Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) includes a variety of different products that can be used to decrease the odds of becoming infected with pandemic influenza.
These include:
- Surgical masks - Face coverings designed to prevent a health care worker or patient from spreading their germs to others. They are not designed to protect the wearer from infectious diseases but may decrease the odds of becoming infected from large droplets.
- Respirators (N95, N99, N100) - Face coverings designed to protect the wearer from small particles including infectious diseases. The number after the "N" describes the percent of small particles expected to be excluded from the air breathed by the wearer of the respirator. These can be purchased either as disposible masks or as resuable full or half-face masks with disposable cartridges.
- Gloves - These are usually made of latex or nitrile and protect against hand contamination, if used correctly.
- Coveralls - Usually made of Tyvek, these protect against contamination of clothing and other body parts.
- Goggles (safety glasses) - Protect eyes from infection.
- Booties - disposable coverings to protect shoes and feet from contamination.
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So which is it? N-95s or surgical masks?
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