Browse Items (248 total)

• Environmental Contact and Self-contact Patterns of Healthcare Workers: Implications for Infection Prevention and Control

  Tags Contact Transmission, Infection Prevention and Control, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen
  Creator: C. D. C. Prevention Epicenters Program (CDC)
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-01
  Description: Respiratory viruses on fomites can be transferred to sites susceptible to infection via contact by hands or other fomites.

• Common Behaviors and Faults When Doffing Personal Protective Equipment for Patients With Serious Communicable Diseases

  Tags Donning and Doffing, Gloves, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PM, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Special Pathogens
  Creator: C. D. C. Prevention Epicenters Program (CDC)
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-01
  Description: The safe removal of personal protective equipment (PPE) can limit transmission of serious communicable diseases, but this process poses challenges to healthcare workers (HCWs).

• Variability in the Duration and Thoroughness of Hand Hygiene

  Tags Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PM, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: C. D. C. Prevention Epicenters Program (CDC)
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-01
  Description: We observed 354 hand hygiene instances across 41 healthcare workers doffing personal protective equipment at 4 hospital-based biocontainment units.

• Effect of Glove Decontamination on Bacterial Contamination of Healthcare Personnel Hands

  Tags Contact Transmission, Gloves, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: C. D. C. Prevention Epicenters Program (CDC)
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-01
  Description: We examined the effect of glove decontamination prior to removal on bacterial contamination of healthcare personnel hands in a laboratory simulation study.

• Preventing Viral Contamination: Effects of Wipe and Spray-based Decontamination of Gloves and Gowns

  Tags Gloves, Gown, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: C. D. C. Prevention Epicenters Program (CDC)
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-01
  Description: We conducted a laboratory simulation to evaluate the contamination of environmental surfaces when using wipe vs spray methods of personal protective equipment (PPE) decontamination.

• Development and Comparison of Complementary Methods to Study Potential Skin and Inhalational Exposure to Pathogens During Personal Protective Equipment Doffing

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Donning and Doffing, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub
  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).

• Effect of an Intervention Package and Teamwork Training to Prevent Healthcare Personnel Self-contamination During Personal Protective Equipment Doffing

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Donning and Doffing, Ebola, Isolation/Biocontainment, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PM, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Staff Support, Staffing, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  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…

• Model-based Assessment of the Effect of Contact Precautions Applied to Surveillance-detected Carriers of Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Long-term Acute Care Hospitals

  Tags Contact Transmission, Long-term Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-LTC, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: C. D. C. Prevention Epicenters Program and C. D. C. Modeling Infectious Diseases in Healthcare Program (CDC)
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-01
  Description: An intervention that successfully reduced colonization and infection with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) in Chicago-area long-term acute-care hospitals included active surveillance and contact precautions.

• Barrier Enclosure during Endotracheal Intubation

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Occupational Exposure, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Canelli, Robert, Christopher W. Connor, Mauricio Gonzalez, Ala Nozari, and Rafael Ortega.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-04-03
  Description: Clinicians with inadequate access to standard personal protective equipment (PPE) have been compelled to improvise protective barrier enclosures for use during endotracheal intubation.See a response to this article: More on Barrier Enclosure during…

• Assessing Viral Transfer During Doffing of Ebola-Level Personal Protective Equipment in a Biocontainment Unit

  Tags Ebola, Gloves, Internal Transport, Occupational Exposure, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-IIT, R-PM, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Trained Observer, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Casanova, L. M., K. Erukunuakpor, C. S. Kraft, J. M. Mumma, F. T. Durso, A. N. Ferguson, C. L. Gipson, V. L. Walsh, C. Zimring, J. DuBose, J. T. Jacob, Control Centers for Disease, and Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion Prevention Epicenters…
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-05-05
  Description: The 2014–2015 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) placed healthcare workers (HCWs) at high risk for acquiring EVD during patient care.