Showing posts with label N95. Show all posts
Showing posts with label N95. Show all posts
Friday, September 05, 2014

NIOSH: Today Is N95 Day

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  # 9042 PPEs (Personal Protective Equipment), including N95 respirators, are important tools to ensure worker safety in a variety...
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, 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...
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

Singapore To Distribute 1.2M N95 Preparedness `Starter Kits’

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# 8569   Singapore (pop. 5.5 million) – which was heavily impacted by the SARS outbreak in 2003 ( and to a far lesser extent, by ...
Monday, March 17, 2014

NIOSH: Options To Maximize The Supply of Respirators During A Pandemic

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    # 8383   Although we only had a taste of in 2009 ( due to the relatively mild nature of the pandemic H1N1 virus ),  one of the...
Friday, October 25, 2013

NIOSH Webinar: Debunking N95 Myths

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      #7901   Roughly 20 million Americans use respirators as part of their work, yet there remain some common myths over how ...
Friday, October 04, 2013

Masks, MERS, and The Upcoming Hajj

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Credit Wikipedia   # 7834     Although it has been mentioned previously ( see last July’s KSA MOH Updates Health Protection Advi...
Thursday, September 05, 2013

NIOSH: 9/5 Is N95 Day

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  N95 Respirator – Credit CDC PHIL   # 7633   As any disease geek knows, N95 masks are the preferred personal protective equipme...
Wednesday, September 05, 2012

NIOSH: 9/5 Is N95 Day

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N95 Respirator – Credit CDC PHIL   # 6537   I am a bit chagrined to admit that – until about 12 hours ago – I didn’t know that th...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Study: Aerosolized Influenza And PPEs

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Photo Credit PHIL (Public Health Image Library)   # 6253   We’ve a new study, appearing yesterday in the journal Clinical Infecti...