Showing posts with label HCW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HCW. Show all posts
Saturday, March 14, 2015

CDC Statement: Investigating Additional Potential Ebola Exposures To American Citizens In West Africa

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    # 9828   Yesterday, in NIH Statement On Arrival Of American HCW With Ebola Virus For Treatment , we looked at the evacuation ...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Referral: VDU On MERS In HCWs

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Credit Dr. Ian Mackay VDU Blog     # 9584     Dr. Ian Mackay has a new post up today that looks at the unusually high number o...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Webcast Of HCW Ebola Training Session Today – 10 am EDT

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    # 9227   The first tenet of the CDC’s updated Interim Guidance for HCWS on working with Ebola patients stresses the impor...
Monday, October 20, 2014

CDC Guidance: Initial Steps In Caring For A Suspected Ebola Patient

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Credit FEMA   # 9220   Given the current concerns over the possibility of having another Ebola patient walk into a hospital Em...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Statement: WHO-Deployed Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola

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Credit CDC PHIL     # 8994   Although proper PPEs and stringent infection control protocols have been shown to protect Healt...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

NPPTL N95 Day Webinar: Respirator Preparedness in Healthcare

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  # 8973     A follow up to yesterday’s post ( CDC Guidance: Donning & Removing PPEs ), two weeks from this coming Friday (Sep...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Nigeria: 10th Ebola Case Confirmed

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    # 8937   The tragedy of healthcare workers exposed to Ebola continues to evolve in Nigeria as that country reports their 10th ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

CIDRAP Commentary: Protecting HCWs From MERS-CoV

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Credit CDC     # 8642\   One of the harsh lessons of the SARS outbreak of 2003 is that doctors originally underestimated its ab...
Monday, May 05, 2014

Media Reporting 8th MERS Case In Jordan

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    # 8573   Five days ago, in Jordanian News Agency Reports 7th Coronavirus Case – HCW , we learned of a health care worker ...
Monday, April 21, 2014

MERS, HCWs, And Infection Control

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Credit CDC   # 8505     Although there is a good deal we don’t know about the current outbreaks of MERS-CoV in healthcare se...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Dr. Mackay On HCWs & MERS Infection Rates

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Credit Dr. Ian Mackay VDU BLog       # 8470   One of the ` red flags’ we’ve looked for over the years with disease outbreak...
Monday, January 27, 2014

SHEA Infection Control Recommendations On HCW Attire

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MRSA - Photo Credit CDC PHIL # 8227 While exotic infectious diseases like bird flu make for fascinating study, in reality you are...
Friday, January 03, 2014

WHO: UAE Reports New MERS-CoV Case (HCW)

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  Coronavirus – Credit CDC PHIL     # 8125     The World Health Organization has just posted a GAR update  (h/t @MackayIM ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Philippines DFA: Filipino Nurse Died Of MERS in Saudi Arabia

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    # 7779   The story is all over the Filipino press this morning (see here , here & here ), all stemming from a press brief...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

New York State’s New HCW Flu Vaccination Policy

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Photo Credit – CDC PHIL     # 7620   Four years ago (2009), with the specter of the H1N1 pandemic looming, the state of New York...