Printer friendly version pdf icon[3 pages] Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Respirators offers a series of strategies or options on how healthcare facilities can optimize supplies of disposable N95 filtering facepiece respirators when there is limited supply availability.
This checklist is intended to help healthcare facilities prioritize the implementation of the strategies following the prioritization used in the concept of surge capacity.
The following strategies are categorized in a continuum of care and further organized according to the hierarchy of controls, as defined below.