Powered air-purifying respirator
Full-face respirator that provides filtered air to the wearer using an electric fan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the full-body lab garment with similar purpose, see Positive pressure personnel suit.
A powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) is a type of respirator used to safeguard workers against contaminated air. PAPRs consist of a headgear-and-fan assembly that takes ambient air contaminated with one or more type of pollutant or pathogen, actively removes (filters) a sufficient proportion of these hazards, and then delivers the clean air to the user's face or mouth and nose. They have a higher assigned protection factor than filtering facepiece respirators such as N95 masks. PAPRs are sometimes called positive-pressure masks, blower units, or just blowers.
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