Showing posts with label Infection Control. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Infection Control. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Saudi MOH Announces New MERS Infection Control Procedures

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  # 9286   The recent surge in MERS cases (48 + cases over 60 days ), after a very quiet July and August, serves as a reminder th...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

CDC Interim Ebola Guidance: Environmental Infection Control In Hospitals

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Credit CDC PHIL     # 8974     The CDC continues to roll out new interim guidance documents for health care professionals ...
Monday, August 18, 2014

CDC Guidance: Donning & Removing PPEs

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Surgical Facemask N-95 Respirator      # 8968   Although this information has been published as an update to the CDC’s Ebola Pa...
Friday, August 01, 2014

State Dept. On Ebola Medical Evacuation & CDC Infection Control Guidance

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  # 8904   With two American Missionaries infected with Ebola expected to arrive in the United States as soon as this weekend (s...
Monday, May 26, 2014

MERS: A Close Shave For PPEs

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A plethora of options – Credit NIOSH # 8665   An infection control topic was raised on twitter last night by Dr. Ian Mackay t...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

MERS And The New Normal

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Credit CDC   # 8633   While a substantial portion of the MERS cases we’ve seen reported during the past few weeks appear to be rel...
Thursday, May 08, 2014

CIDRAP: Details On 1st US MERS Case

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  Recommended PPEs   # 8586   Robert Roos , writing for CIDRAP NEWS , does a terrific job teasing out some of the details of Am...
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...
Monday, March 31, 2014

WHO Update & Messaging On Ebola Outbreak

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Photo Credit - CDC   NOTE: For far more complete coverage of the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa you’ll most certainly want to ch...
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 24, 2014

CDC: Updated Interim Infection Control Guidance For Novel Flu In Healthcare Settings

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  # 8216   Although no cases of H7N9 have been reported outside of Asia, the potential for this virus to migrate to other regio...
Tuesday, December 03, 2013

HK: Hospitals Increase Infection Control Efforts Due To H7N9 Concerns

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H7N9 Awareness Campaign Summer 2013 - Photo credit Hong Kong’s CHP   # 8036   Hong Kong packs a little more than 7 million people ...