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Creator: CDC
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2021-04-09
Description: This summary is intended to help healthcare facilities optimize supplies of disposable N95 filtering facepiece respirators when there is limited supply during the COVID-19 pandemic. The strategies are categorized in a continuum of care and further…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.
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Creator: CDC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-06-03
Description: A variety of infection control guidance for healthcare professionals about COVID-19: Guidance Infection Control Guidance Postmortem Guidance Guidance by Facility Type Alternate Care Sites Ambulatory Care Settings Blood and Plasma…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.
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Creator: CDC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2014-10-29
Description: To ensure the safety of your colleagues, you must lead, protect, and guide others through the process of safely and correctly donning and doffing PPE. As a Trained Observer, you are responsible for: Monitoring compliance with PPE protocols Guiding,… -
Creator: OSHA
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-05
Description: Resources for Respirator Program Administrators.
This document was adapted from a California-specific guide, Implementing Respiratory Protection Programs in Hospitals: A Guide for Respirator Program Administrators, May 2012, which was developed by… -
Creator: Jones, Rachael M., Susan C. Bleasdale, Dayana Maita, and Lisa M. Brosseau, for the C. D. C. Prevention Epicenters Program.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-01
Description: Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a primary strategy to protect health care personnel (HCP) from infectious diseases. When transmission-based PPE ensembles are not appropriate, HCP must recognize the transmission pathway of the disease and… -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2021-09-16
Description: Audience: These considerations are intended for use by federal, state, and local public health officials, respiratory protection program managers, leaders in occupational health services and infection prevention and control programs, and other…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.
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Creator: CDC
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2020-10-19
Description: The CDC flowchart attached to this page guides you through determining if an N95 FFR Crisis Capacity strategy is needed.Implementing Filtering Facepiece Respirator (FFR) Reuse, Including Reuse after Decontamination, When There Are Known Shortages of…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.
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Creator: Mumma, J. M., E. Jordan, O. Ayeni, N. Kaufman, M. J. Wheatley, A. Grindle, and J. Morgan. 2021.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2021-10-20
Description: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of face masks by the public has helped to slow the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the community. Cloth masks have been recommended because of their effectiveness,… -
Creator: Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center (EIIC)
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2021
Description: This page gathers a collection of tools related to PPE, Calculators & Essential Skills for clinicians. -
Creator: Herstein JJ, Abdoulaye AA, Jelden KC, Le AB, Beam EL, Gibbs SG, Hewlett AL, Vasa A, Boulter KC, Stentz TL, Kopocis-Herstein KR, ElRayes W, Wichman C, Lowe JJ.
Subject: Personnel Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2021-08-12
Description: Personal protective equipment used by healthcare workers to mitigate disease transmission risks while caring for patients with high-consequence infectious diseases can impair normal body cooling mechanisms and exacerbate physiological strain.…