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
  
  
• Subjects:
  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
• Pages in Document:
  3 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:12bb95348b69c1e51de17239102a742cf38cb5d920fd281bee95ebe978627e5a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/25727/cdc_25727_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 70.78 KB ]