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  Preferred Product Characteristics for Personal Protective Equipment for the Health Worker on the Frontline Responding to Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers*in Tropical Climates

  Tags Donning and Doffing, Ebola, Healthcare Worker Safety, Marburg, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2018-09-26
  Description: *Ebola, Marburg and other hemorrhagic fevers that share similar human-to-human transmission characteristicsGuidance document. WHO Team Access to Assistive Technology and Medical Devices, Access to Medicines and Health Products, Health Product…

• Respiratory consequences of N95-type Mask usage in pregnant healthcare workers—a controlled clinical study

  Tags Flu, Healthcare Worker Safety, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Mask, Masks, N95, Not updated, Occupational Health, Pregnancy, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, Respiratory Pathogen
  Creator: Tong, P. S., A. S. Kale, K. Ng, A. P. Loke, M. A. Choolani, C. L. Lim, Y. H. Chan, Y. S. Chong, P. A. Tambyah, and E. L. Yong.
  Subject: Personnel Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-11-16
  Description: Outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases have led to guidelines recommending the routine use of N95 respirators for healthcare workers, many of whom are women of childbearing age. The respiratory effects of prolonged respirator use on pregnant women…