{"id":4676,"date":"2016-03-09T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2016-03-18T14:24:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:24:18","slug":"protecting-healthcare-workers-masks-v-respirators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/protecting-healthcare-workers-masks-v-respirators\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting healthcare workers &#8211; Masks v. Respirators<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4720\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/3M_N95_Particulate_Respirator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4720\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4720\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/3M_N95_Particulate_Respirator-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The N95 respirator. (Image credit: Banej\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/3M_N95_Particulate_Respirator-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/3M_N95_Particulate_Respirator.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The N95 respirator. (Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:3M_N95_Particulate_Respirator.JPG\">Banej<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Respirators and surgical masks both help protect health workers from respiratory infections, however there has been a debate about which is more effective and different guidelines provide different recommendations. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A review of the accumulated evidence does not suggest that the N95 respirator is superior to surgical masks. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authors suggest a randomized controlled trial, evaluating surgical masks and the respirator in a clinical environment to determine which is more effective.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature17181.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research\u00a0paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published by\u00a0the <em>CMAJ\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>March\u00a07<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gary Garber, Public Health Ontario, and Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Respirators and surgical masks both help protect health workers from respiratory infections, however there has been a debate about which is more effective and different guidelines provide different recommendations. A review of the accumulated evidence does not suggest that the N95 respirator is superior to surgical masks. The authors suggest a randomized controlled trial, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,53,50,2510,476],"class_list":["post-4676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-ontario","tag-preventative-medicine","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/3M_N95_Particulate_Respirator.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1dq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4721,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions\/4721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}