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Junjun Mo1, Fang Huang1, Bei Lyu1
1Central Sterile Supply Department, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310003, China.
Objective:
To establish reuse process of positive pressure powered air-filter protective hoods during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic.
Methods:
The procedure of pretreatment, storage, recovery, cleaning, disinfection and sterilization process of positive pressure powered air-filter protective hoods, which were used in the treatment of COVID-19 infection patients was established in Central Sterile Supply Department of the hospital. The cleaning and disinfection effects of the protective hoods after treatment were examined by magnifying glass method, residual protein detection method, real-time PCR, and agar pour plate method.
Results:
Twenty five used protective hoods underwent totally 135 times of washing, disinfecting and sterilizing procedures. After washing, all the protein residue tests and COVID-19 nucleic acid tests showed negative results. After sterilizing, all the protective hoods met sterility requirement. All the tested protective hoods were undamaged after reprocessing.
Conclusions:
The established reuse procedures for used positive pressure powered air-filter protective hoods are safe.
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