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- Valentino Vellone, Tito M Marianetti, Luca Di Renzo, Alessandro Ricci, Federico Bocciolesi, and Valerio Ramieri.
- Maxillo-Facial Surgery Department, Sapienza University of Rome.
- J Craniofac Surg. 2020 Sep 1; 31 (6): e640-e642.
AbstractOn 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.
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