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CHEST
Volume 130, Issue 3, Pages 822-826Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1378/chest.130.3.822
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aerosol; airborne; airflow; hospital-acquired; infection; infection control; nosocomial; oxygen mask; transmission; visualization
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Patients with respiratory infections often require the use of supplemental oxygen via oxygen masks, which, in the hospital, may become sources of aerosolized infectious pathogens. To assess this risk, a human lung model (respiration rate, 12 breaths/min) was designed to test the potential for a simple oxygen mask at a common setting (4 L/min) to disperse potentially infectious exhaled air into the surrounding area. A laser sheet was used to illuminate the exhaled air from the mask, which contained fine tracer smoke particles. An analysis of captured digital images showed that the exhaled air at the peak of simulated exhalation reached a distance of approximately 0.40 m.
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