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Creator: CDC
Subject: Training and Exercises
Item Type: Exercise
Date Last Updated: 2020-06-26
Description: Training materials on: Clinical Care & Infection Control, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Nonpharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs), Emergency Preparedness and Response, and Additional Topics. -
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: 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,…Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.
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Creator: CDC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2021-10-25
Description: How to select (what to choose and what not to choose), properly wear, clean, and store masks.Special considerations like gaiters & face shields, children, cold weather, beards, and disabilities.Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.
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Creator: CDC, NIOSH
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-06-11
Description: The NIOSH PPE Tracker mobile app can help healthcare and non-healthcare systems track their personal protective equipment (PPE) inventory. Facilities can use the app to calculate their average PPE consumption rate or “burn rate.” The app estimates… -
Creator: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epicenters Program, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2018-02-17
Description: Doffing protocols for personal protective equipment (PPE) are critical for keeping healthcare workers (HCWs) safe during care of patients with Ebola virus disease. -
Creator: Chu, Derek K., Elie A. Akl, Stephanie Duda, Karla Solo, Sally Yaacoub, Holger J. Schünemann, Derek K. Chu, Elie A. Akl, Amena El-harakeh, Antonio Bognanni, Tamara Lotfi, Mark Loeb, Anisa Hajizadeh, Anna Bak, Ariel Izcovich, Carlos A. Cuello-Garcia,…
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-06-01
Description: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes COVID-19 and is spread person-to-person through close contact. We aimed to investigate the effects of physical distance, face masks, and eye protection on virus transmission in… -
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: Coia, J. E., L. Ritchie, A. Adisesh, C. Makison Booth, C. Bradley, D. Bunyan, G. Carson, C. Fry, P. Hoffman, D. Jenkins, N. Phin, B. Taylor, J. S. Nguyen-Van-Tam, and M. Zuckerman.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2013-11
Description: Infectious micro-organisms may be transmitted by a variety of routes, and some may be spread by more than one route. -
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.