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A method for evaluating health care workers’ personal protective equipment technique
BACKGROUND: Given the potential for the transfer of infectious diseases among patients in isolation, health care workers (HCWs), and other patients in the hospital environment, the proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is paramount. The literature is limited regarding studies of HCWs’ us...
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Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc.
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132659/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21255874 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2010.07.009 |
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author | Beam, Elizabeth L. Gibbs, Shawn G. Boulter, Kathleen C. Beckerdite, Marcia E. Smith, Philip W. |
author_facet | Beam, Elizabeth L. Gibbs, Shawn G. Boulter, Kathleen C. Beckerdite, Marcia E. Smith, Philip W. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Given the potential for the transfer of infectious diseases among patients in isolation, health care workers (HCWs), and other patients in the hospital environment, the proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is paramount. The literature is limited regarding studies of HCWs’ use of PPE in patient care tasks. METHODS: A pilot study was conducted to examine the feasibility of using a simulated health care environment to assess HCWs’ technique when implementing standard airborne and contact isolation precautions. The participants (n = 10) were assigned patient care tasks based on their specific professional roles. The encounters were digitally recorded during donning and doffing of PPE, as well as during interactions with the simulated patient. Powdered fluorescent marker was used as a measure of contamination. RESULTS: The pilot data show various inconsistencies in the HCWs’ PPE technique. Each of the 10 participants committed at least one breach of standard airborne and contact isolation precautions. CONCLUSION: An expanded research study of HCW behaviors is needed to properly examine these contamination and exposure pathways. Training programs should be developed that emphasize the common errors in HCWs’ PPE technique. |
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spelling | pubmed-71326592020-04-08 A method for evaluating health care workers’ personal protective equipment technique Beam, Elizabeth L. Gibbs, Shawn G. Boulter, Kathleen C. Beckerdite, Marcia E. Smith, Philip W. Am J Infect Control Major Article BACKGROUND: Given the potential for the transfer of infectious diseases among patients in isolation, health care workers (HCWs), and other patients in the hospital environment, the proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is paramount. The literature is limited regarding studies of HCWs’ use of PPE in patient care tasks. METHODS: A pilot study was conducted to examine the feasibility of using a simulated health care environment to assess HCWs’ technique when implementing standard airborne and contact isolation precautions. The participants (n = 10) were assigned patient care tasks based on their specific professional roles. The encounters were digitally recorded during donning and doffing of PPE, as well as during interactions with the simulated patient. Powdered fluorescent marker was used as a measure of contamination. RESULTS: The pilot data show various inconsistencies in the HCWs’ PPE technique. Each of the 10 participants committed at least one breach of standard airborne and contact isolation precautions. CONCLUSION: An expanded research study of HCW behaviors is needed to properly examine these contamination and exposure pathways. Training programs should be developed that emphasize the common errors in HCWs’ PPE technique. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. 2011-06 2011-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7132659/ /pubmed/21255874 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2010.07.009 Text en Copyright © 2011 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Major Article Beam, Elizabeth L. Gibbs, Shawn G. Boulter, Kathleen C. Beckerdite, Marcia E. Smith, Philip W. A method for evaluating health care workers’ personal protective equipment technique |
title | A method for evaluating health care workers’ personal protective equipment technique |
title_full | A method for evaluating health care workers’ personal protective equipment technique |
title_fullStr | A method for evaluating health care workers’ personal protective equipment technique |
title_full_unstemmed | A method for evaluating health care workers’ personal protective equipment technique |
title_short | A method for evaluating health care workers’ personal protective equipment technique |
title_sort | method for evaluating health care workers’ personal protective equipment technique |
topic | Major Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132659/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21255874 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2010.07.009 |
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