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Corporate Authors:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
Description:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tightening previous infection control guidance

for healthcare workers caring for patients with Ebola, to ensure there is no ambiguity. The

guidance focuses on specific personal protective equipment (PPE) health care workers should use

and offers detailed step by step instructions for how to put the equipment on and take it off safely.

Recent experience from safely treating patients with Ebola at Emory University Hospital, Nebraska

Medical Center and National Institutes of Health Clinical Center are reflected in the guidance.

The enhanced guidance is centered on three principles:

• All healthcare workers undergo rigorous training and are practiced and competent with PPE, including taking it on and off in a systemic manner

• No skin exposure when PPE is worn

• All workers are supervised by a trained monitor who watches each worker taking PPE on and off.

All patients treated at Emory University Hospital, Nebraska Medical Center and the NIH Clinical

Center have followed the three principles. None of the workers at these facilities have contracted

the illness.

Principle #1: Rigorous and repeated training

Principle #2: No skin exposure when PPE is worn

Principle #3: Trained monitor


Subject:
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Cross Infection/prevention & Control
Disease Transmission, Infectious/prevention & Control
Health Personnel
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
Hospitals
Protective Clothing
Protective Devices
Respiratory Protective Devices

Document Type:
Pamphlet (or booklet)
Genre:
Guidance
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
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