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Creator: CIDRAP
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2013-02-20
Description: In a new study, Chinese hospital staffers who wore N95 respirators all the time enjoyed significantly lower rates of clinical respiratory illnesses (CRIs) than workers who wore surgical masks or used N95s only for high-risk procedures. -
Creator: MacIntyre, C. Raina, Cauchemez Simon, E. Dwyer Dominic, Seale Holly, Cheung Pamela, Browne Gary, Fasher Michael, Wood James, Gao Zhanhai, Booy Robert, and Ferguson Neil.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2009-02
Description: Many countries are stockpiling face masks for use as a nonpharmaceutical intervention to control virus transmission during an influenza pandemic. -
Creator: Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan*, Shuofeng Yuan*, Kin-Hang Kok*, Kelvin Kai-Wang To*, Hin Chu*, Jin Yang, Fanfan Xing, Jieling Liu, Cyril Chik-Yan Yip, Rosana Wing-Shan Poon, Hoi-Wah Tsoi, Simon Kam-Fai Lo, Kwok-Hung Chan, Vincent Kwok-Man Poon, Wan-Mui Chan,…
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-01-24
Description: An ongoing outbreak of pneumonia associated with a novel coronavirus was reported in Wuhan city, Hubei province, China. Affected patients were geographically linked with a local wet market as a potential source. No data on… -
Creator: Minnesota Department of Health
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Video
Date Last Updated: 2018-05-14
Description: This video demonstrates how to don and doff a mask (masks) in the clinical area. -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2010
Description: WASH YOUR HANDS THOROUGHLY BEFORE PUTTING ON AND TAKING OFF THE RESPIRATOR.If you have used a respirator before that fit you, use the same make, model and size. Inspect the respirator for damage. If your respirator appears damaged, DO NOT USE IT.… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Training and Exercises
Item Type: Exercise
Date Last Updated: 2019-12-09
Description: Regional Ebola and Other Special Pathogens Treatment Center & Regional Partners -
Creator: CDC and U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2012-05
Description: See Lesson 1, Section 10.Lesson 1: Introduction to Epidemiology, Section 10: Chain of Infection from Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice, Third Edition An Introduction to Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics. -
Creator: C. D. C. Prevention Epicenters Program (CDC)
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-10-01
Description: More than 28 000 people were infected with Ebola virus during the 2014–2015 West African outbreak, resulting in more than 11 000 deaths. Better methods are needed to reduce the risk of self-contamination while doffing personal protective equipment… -
Creator: C. D. C. Prevention Epicenters Program (CDC)
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-10-01
Description: Fluorescent tracers are often used with ultraviolet lights to visibly identify healthcare worker self-contamination after doffing of personal protective equipment (PPE). -
Creator: Drews, Frank A., Diane Mulvey, Kristina Stratford, Matthew H. Samore, and Jeanmarie Mayer.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-10-01
Description: In healthcare, the goal of personal protective equipment (PPE) is to protect healthcare personnel (HCP) and patients from body fluids and infectious organisms via contact, droplet, or airborne transmission.