Isolate

Preparedness Questions: These questions should serve as a guide for examining your plans and processes and applying what you learn in the Biopreparedness: Identify, Isolate, Inform Course to your own facility.

Resources to support the Preparedness questions above.

CDC PPE Guidance for Ebola: https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/healthcare-us/ppe/index.html
CDC PPE Guidance for MERS: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/mers/infection-prevention-control.html
OSHA Standards for MERS: https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/mers/control_prevention.html
CDC PPE calculator (link to right).
Visit the full series of CDC Donning and Doffing Videos for Ebola to the right, or view specific shorter Donning and Doffing Videos for Ebola below.

This is the general guidance on personal protective equipment from NIOSH/NPPTL, not specific to Ebola or special pathogens: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/protectiveclothing/default.html
This is the guidance on PPE for Ebolafrom the CDC used throughout our presentations: https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/healthcare-us/ppe/guidance.html
Information on the AAMI Levels of garment protection: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/protectiveclothing/default.html
Information on the limits of protection due to differences in surface tension in water versus body fluids: https://wwwn.cdc.gov/PPEInfo/Standards/Info/ANSI/AAMIPB70Class4

“Facemasks may be labeled as surgical, laser, isolation, dental, or medical procedure masks and are cleared by the FDA for marketing. They may come with or without a face shield. Facemasks do not seal tightly to the wearer's face, do not provide the wearer with a reliable level of protection from inhaling smaller airborne particles, and are not considered respiratory protection.” (FDA, Masks and N95 Respirators) See resource below.
More on face masks, their levels and a guide to selection – The Respiratory Protection Information Trusted Source - Types of Respiratory Protection CDC; and the FDA N95 Respirators, Surgical Masks, Face Masks, and Barrier Face Coverings.
OSHA N95 Seal Check: User Seal Check Procedures

Glove sanitizing: Pengfei Gao, Matthew Horvatin, George Niezgoda, Robyn Weible & Ronald Shaffer (2016) "Effect of multiple alcohol-based hand rub applications on the tensile properties of thirteen brands of medical exam nitrile and latex gloves," Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 13:12, 905-914, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15459624.2016.1191640 (See link above).