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  Hospital Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Planning Tool / Calculator

  Tags Coronavirus, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, MERS-CoV, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, SARS, Special Pathogens, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: ASPR TRACIE
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2018
  Description: Purpose: The Hospital Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Planning Tool is designed to help hospitals determine approximate minimum PPE needs based on special pathogen category and a number of facility specific variables. Calculators are included for…
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  Contaminated Glove Removal

  Tags Doffing, Example, Gloves, Infection Prevention and Control, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE
  Creator: Emory Environmental Health and Safety Office
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2020
  Description: Poster showing the process for removing contaminated gloves.

  Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.

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  COVID-19 PPE Guidance

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Archived, Contingency and crisis capacities, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Donning and Doffing, Gloves, Gown, Infection Prevention and Control, Mask, Masks, N95, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-16
  Description: COVID-19: PPE-Flyer (pdf file, printable flyer, infographic) PPE Competency Validation Checklist (pdf file) PPE Competency Validation Checklist - Instructor Guide. (pdf instructor guide) PPE/Glove removal: For step-by-step instructions on the…

  Conservation strategies: This resource contains recommendations facilitating conservation of equipment and supplies during contingency (expected shortages) and crisis (known shortages) capacities and should not be applied as guidance when conventional capacities are available.

• Initiation of a new infection control system for the COVID-19 outbreak

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemic, Infection Prevention and Control, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Chen, Xuejiao, Junzhang Tian, Guanming Li, and Guowei Li.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-02-18
  Description: In December, 2019, a group of patients with pneumonia of unknown origin, most of whom had been exposed to the Huanan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan, China, was first reported.

• Effectiveness of three decontamination treatments against influenza virus applied to filtering facepiece respirators.

  Tags Decontamination, Flu, Influenza, Mask, Masks, N95, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Lore, Michael B., Brian K. Heimbuch, Teanne L. Brown, Joseph D. Wander, and Steven H. Hinrichs.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2011-08-22
  Description: Filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) are recommended for use as precautions against airborne pathogenic microorganisms; however, during pandemics demand for FFRs may far exceed availability.
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  Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and its inactivation with biocidal agents

  Tags Contact Transmission, Coronavirus, Infection Prevention and Control, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Kampf, Günter, Daniel Todt, Stephanie Pfaender, and Eike Steinmann.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-02-06
  Description: Currently, the emergence of a novel human coronavirus, temporary named 2019-nCoV, has become a global health concern causing severe respiratory tract infections in humans.
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  Enhanced detection of infectious airborne influenza virus

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Blachere, Francoise M., Gang Cao, William G. Lindsley, John D. Noti, and Donald H. Beezhold.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2011-09
  Description: Current screening methodologies for detecting infectious airborne influenza virus are limited and lack sensitivity.
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  Assessment of influenza virus exposure and recovery from contaminated surgical masks and N95 respirators

  Tags Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Mask, Masks, N95, Occupational Exposure, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Blachere, Francoise M., William G. Lindsley, Cynthia M. McMillen, Donald H. Beezhold, Edward M. Fisher, Ronald E. Shaffer, and John D. Noti.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-10
  Description: Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at significantly higher risk of exposure to influenza virus during seasonal epidemics and global pandemics.
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  Exposure to influenza virus aerosols in the hospital setting: is routine patient care an aerosol generating procedure?

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Occupational Exposure, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Cummings, Kristin J., Stephen B. Martin, Jr., William G. Lindsley, Sreekumar Othumpangat, Francoise M. Blachere, John D. Noti, Donald H. Beezhold, Nasira Roidad, John E. Parker, and David N. Weissman.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-08-01
  Description: We read with interest the article by Bischoff et al, in which they describe detection of influenza virus in aerosols around hospitalized patients with influenza virus infection who were receiving routine care.

• Validation and Application of Models to Predict Facemask Influenza Contamination in Healthcare Settings

  Tags Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Mask, Masks, Occupational Exposure, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Fisher, Edward M., John D. Noti, William G. Lindsley, Francoise M. Blachere, and Ronald E. Shaffer.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-08
  Description: Facemasks are part of the hierarchy of interventions used to reduce the transmission of respiratory pathogens by providing a barrier.