The survey did not measure inventories of reusable elastomeric respirators. A 2012 survey by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (1,066 hospitals completed the survey) estimated that almost 60 million N95 filtering facepiece respirators and approximately 75,000 powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs) were on hand at the 1,066 acute care hospitals that responded ( ASTHO, 2014). A study at Fraser Health Authority in British Columbia, Canada, noted that prior to the H1N1 pandemic the health authority had used approximately 1,440 disposable filtering facepiece respirators per week (approximately 75,000 per year) and that during the peak of the pandemic more than 19,000 of the respirators were being used each week, an increase of more than 13-fold over the baseline ( Ciconte et al., 2013). DATA ON THE EXTENT OF ROUTINE AND SURGE USE AND SUPPLIES OF RESPIRATORSįew data are available on the extent of routine and potential surge use of all types of respirators in health care.
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