Showing posts with label PPEs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PPEs. Show all posts
Thursday, November 20, 2014

CDC: Best Practices On Procuring PPEs For Ebola Response

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Packing PPE Container – Credit CDC   # 9350   One of the realities of living in a just-in-time inventory oriented world is that no...
Friday, November 07, 2014

CDC Stockpiling Ebola-Specific PPE Kits For Rapid Deployment

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Packing PPE Container – Credit CDC   # 9299   The type ( and quantities ) of PPEs that are required to care for Ebola cases here ...
Tuesday, November 04, 2014

CDC Ebola Guidance: Web Based PPE Training

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# 9285   Perhaps the number one Ebola-related priority for healthcare workers right now is learning how to properly don and do...
Friday, October 31, 2014

WHO Video: Updated Recommendations For PPEs For Current Ebola Outbreak

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  # 9270   Dr. Edward Kelley, Director, Service Delivery and Safety, at the World Health Organization held a 40 minute press confe...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Video: The Emory Ebola PPE Doffing Protocol

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    # 9332   Earlier today, in The Ebola PPE Demonstration Video we looked at the CDC’s recommended PPE doffing procedure when...

The Ebola PPE Demonstration Video

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  NOTE: For the PAPR Version used at Emory University, you can watch the Video: The Emory Ebola PPE Doffing Protocol   ...
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...

CDC: Updated Interim PPE Guidance For HCWs Dealing With Ebola

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Credit CDC   # 9225   The updated CDC guidance on donning and doffing PPEs when working with suspected or confirmed Ebola cases ...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

NIH: `More Stringent’ PPE Standards For Ebola On The Way

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Old CDC Ebola PPE Recommendations http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/infection-prevention-and-control-recommendations.html   # 9216...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

UNMC: The Complex Procedures To Don & Doff PPEs For Ebola

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  # 9190   Although we don’t know by what mechanism the nurses in Texas and Madrid were inadvertently exposed to the Ebola virus, i...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

CIDRAP Commentary: Health workers need optimal respiratory protection for Ebola

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Credit CIDRAP   # 9090   Last night CIDRAP published what I suspect will become a highly controversial commentary, which urges a...
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...
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...
Friday, May 02, 2014

Voting On MERS Transmission: Do The Eyes Have It?

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    King Fahd Hospital ER – Credit http://riyadhconnect.com     # 8557   Over the past 6 weeks we’ve seen a surge in MERS case...
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...