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  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
15,405 Views
10 Pages

Disposable over Reusable Face Masks: Public Safety or Environmental Disaster?

  • Joana C. Prata,
  • Ana L. Patrício Silva,
  • Armando C. Duarte and
  • Teresa Rocha-Santos

Many governments have imposed the public use of face masks and they are now moving towards enforcing disposable masks to abate COVID-19 transmission. While disposable masks consistently provide higher protection, they also carry multiple environmenta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Plastic Contamination: Challenges and Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,196 Views
12 Pages

Analysis of Physiological Response during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation with Personal Protective Equipment: A Randomized Crossover Study

  • María Fernández-Méndez,
  • Martín Otero-Agra,
  • Felipe Fernández-Méndez,
  • Santiago Martínez-Isasi,
  • Myriam Santos-Folgar,
  • Roberto Barcala-Furelos and
  • Antonio Rodríguez-Núñez

The use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is required for the self-protection of healthcare workers during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in patients at risk of aerosol transmission of infectious agents. The aim of this study was to analyze...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Safety, Health and Wellbeing of Healthcare Workers)
  • Short Note
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,475 Views
7 Pages

Various guidelines for the protection of human beings against possible adverse effects resulting from exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) have been published with a view towards continual improvement; therefore, decreasing exposure is an import...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biological and Health Effects of Low Level Non-Ionising Electromagnetic Fields)
  • Article
  • Open Access
901 Views
16 Pages

3 December 2025

Personal protective equipment (PPE) like single-use face masks is discarded after a single use and poses a significant danger to the environment, resulting in plastic pollution. Most of the face masks are made from synthetic polymers and are non-biod...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Process Analysis of Pollutants in Fiber Filtration, Adsorption, and Purification)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,766 Views
12 Pages

To help halt the global spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), appropriate disinfection techniques are required. Over the last years, the interest in Ultraviolet-C (UV-C) radiation as a method to disinfect inanima...

(This article belongs to the Section Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance)