Tightened Guidance for U.S. Healthcare Workers on Personal Protective Equipment for Ebola

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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
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• Subjects:
  • Cross Infection / prevention & control
  • Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control
  • Health Personnel
  • Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
  • Hospitals
  • Protective Clothing
  • Protective Devices
  • Respiratory Protective Devices
  • Ebolavirus
• Keywords:
  • Ebola
  • Ebola Virus
  • Ebola Virus Disease
  • Orthoebolavirus
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions ; Global Health
• Pages in Document:
  3 unnumbered pages
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/25727/cdc_25727_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 70.78 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
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