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Background
Within the context of PPE shortages during the coronavirus pandemic, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust tested the feasibility of reprocessing used garments.
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Method
Inivos’ process of vaporised hydrogen peroxide (VHP) was applied to laundered garments, to test its effectiveness in decontaminating single-use PPE items for re-use.
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Result
The process achieved satisfactory standards of disinfection, using organisms considered, on current data, to be worst-case surrogates for SARS-CoV-2