Modified full-face snorkel masks as reusable personal protective equipment for hospital personnel.

Modified full-face snorkel masks as reusable personal protective equipment for hospital personnel.

Here we adapt and evaluate a full-face snorkel mask for use as personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers, who lack appropriate alternatives during the COVID-19 crisis in the spring of 2020. The design (referred to as Pneumask) consists of a custom snorkel-specific adapter that coup...

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Main Authors: Laurel Kroo, Anesta Kothari, Melanie Hannebelle, George Herring, Thibaut Pollina, Ray Chang, Dominic Peralta, Samhita P Banavar, Eliott Flaum, Hazel Soto-Montoya, Hongquan Li, Kyle Combes, Emma Pan, Khang Vu, Kelly Yen, James Dale, Patrick Kolbay, Simon Ellgas, Rebecca Konte, Rozhin Hajian, Grace Zhong, Noah Jacobs, Amit Jain, Filip Kober, Gerry Ayala, Quentin Allinne, Nicholas Cucinelli, Dave Kasper, Luca Borroni, Patrick Gerber, Ross Venook, Peter Baek, Nitin Arora, Philip Wagner, Roberto Miki, Jocelyne Kohn, David Kohn Bitran, John Pearson, Beatriz Arias-Arco, Ricardo Larrainzar-Garijo, Cristián Muñiz Herrera, Manu Prakash
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244422

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244422

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