ReviewClinical therapeutics2015
Personal Protective Equipment: Protecting Health Care Providers in an Ebola Outbreak.
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Outbreak Response and Incident Management: SHEA Guidance and Resources for Healthcare Epidemiologists in United States Acute-Care Hospitals.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2017Guideline
- Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
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- Barriers and facilitators to healthcare facility utilization by non-Ebola patients during the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Global health research and policy · 2024Article
- Psychological, cognitive, and physiological impact of hazards casualties' trainings on first responders: the example of a chemical and radiological training. An exploratory study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Exhaled patient derived aerosol dispersion during awake tracheal intubation with concurrent high flow nasal therapy.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2023Observational
- Assessing efficacy of instructor based orientation to donning doffing protocols and modifications to doffing area infrastructure in reducing SARS-CoV-2 infection among Doctors assigned to COVID-19 patient care.Infection prevention in practice · 2023Article
- Availability and use of personal protective equipment in low- and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2023Article
- The economic value of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
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- Healthcare workers preparedness for COVID-19 pandemic in the occupied Palestinian territory: a cross-sectional survey.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Intelligent Platform Based on Smart PPE for Safety in Workplaces.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeThe recent Ebola epidemic that devastated West Africa has infected and killed more health care providers than any other outbreak in the history of this virus. An improved understanding of pathogen transmission and the institution of strategies to protect health care providers against infection are needed in infectious disease outbreaks. This review connects what is known about Ebola virus transmission with personal protective equipment (PPE) designed to arrest nosocomial transmission.
methodsArticles pertaining to filovirus transmission and PPE in filovirus outbreaks were reviewed and findings are presented. In addition, studies that evaluated PPE and donning and doffing strategies are presented.
findingsPPE is one step in a comprehensive infection prevention and control strategy that is required to protect health care providers. Given that the Ebola virus is primarily transmitted through direct contact of mucous membranes and cuts in the skin with infected patients and/or their bodily fluids, it is necessary to cover these potential portals of infection with PPE as part of a structured and instructed donning and doffing procedure. IMPLICATIONS: Current recommendations about PPE and the donning and doffing processes are based on anecdotal experience. However, the use of non-human viruses can help provide evidence-based guidelines on both PPE and donning and doffing processes.
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