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Creator: Chughtai, Abrar Ahmad, Holly Seale, and Chandini Raina MacIntyre.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2013-05-31
Description: Currently there is an ongoing debate and limited evidence on the use of masks and respirators for the prevention of respiratory infections in health care workers (HCWs). -
Creator: Harber, Philip, Brenda Merz, and Karen Chi.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 1999-05
Description: Respirators are widely used for protection against inhaled toxins. The emphasis of research and implementation effort has evolved through several stages: the respirator device itself, use situation, respirator program factors under employer control,… -
Creator: Lenhart, Steven W., Teresa Seitz, Douglas Trout, and Nancy Bollinger.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2004-03-01
Description: The goal of occupational health practice is to protect the health of workers by preventing diseases and injuries from occurring. -
Creator: Cowling, B. J., Y. Zhou, D. K. M. Ip, G. M. Leung, and A. E. Aiello.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2010-04
Description: Influenza viruses circulate around the world every year. From time to time new strains emerge and cause global pandemics. -
Creator: Raboud, Janet, Altynay Shigayeva, Allison McGeer, Erika Bontovics, Martin Chapman, Denise Gravel, Bonnie Henry, Stephen Lapinsky, Mark Loeb, L. Clifford McDonald, Marianna Ofner, Shirley Paton, Donna Reynolds, Damon Scales, Sandy Shen, Andrew Simor,…
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2010-05-19
Description: In the 2003 Toronto SARS outbreak, SARS-CoV was transmitted in hospitals despite adherence to infection control procedures. -
Creator: Sandrock, Christian E.
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2008-01
Description: Febrile respiratory illnesses with respiratory failure are one of the most common reasons for admission to the intensive care unit. -
Creator: Cheng, Vincent C. C., Jasper F. W. Chan, Kelvin K. W. To, and K. Y. Yuen.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2013-11
Description: The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 was the first emergence of an important human pathogen in the 21st century. -
Creator: Rojek, Amanda M., Shevin T. Jacob, and Jake Dunning.
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03
Description: Since the onset of the west Africa Ebola virus outbreak, there has been remarkable progress in efforts to provide patients with improved supportive care and access to experimental treatments. -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2016-11-03
Description: About Pandemic Influenza Purpose An influenza pandemic is a global outbreak of a new influenza A virus that is very different from current and recently circulating human seasonal influenza A viruses. Pandemics happen when new (novel) influenza A… -
Creator: Tang, Julian W., Andre Nicolle, Jovan Pantelic, Christian A. Klettner, Ruikun Su, Petri Kalliomaki, Pekka Saarinen, Hannu Koskela, Kari Reijula, Panu Mustakallio, David K. W. Cheong, Chandra Sekhar, and Kwok Wai Tham.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2013-06-24
Description: Hospital isolation rooms are vital for the containment (when under negative pressure) of patients with, or the protection (when under positive pressure) of patients, from airborne infectious agents.
