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Variation in health care worker removal of personal protective equipment
In the current era of emerging pathogens such as Ebola virus, removal of personal protective equipment (PPE) is crucial to reduce contamination of health care workers. However, current removal practices are not well described. We undertook a systematic evaluation of health care worker removal of PPE...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26138659 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.02.005 |
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author | Zellmer, Caroline Van Hoof, Sarah Safdar, Nasia |
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description | In the current era of emerging pathogens such as Ebola virus, removal of personal protective equipment (PPE) is crucial to reduce contamination of health care workers. However, current removal practices are not well described. We undertook a systematic evaluation of health care worker removal of PPE for contact isolation to examine variation in removal procedures. Findings indicate that under usual conditions, only about half of health care workers correctly remove their PPE, and very few remove their PPE in the correct order and dispose of it in the proper location. |
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spelling | pubmed-71328142020-04-08 Variation in health care worker removal of personal protective equipment Zellmer, Caroline Van Hoof, Sarah Safdar, Nasia Am J Infect Control Brief Report In the current era of emerging pathogens such as Ebola virus, removal of personal protective equipment (PPE) is crucial to reduce contamination of health care workers. However, current removal practices are not well described. We undertook a systematic evaluation of health care worker removal of PPE for contact isolation to examine variation in removal procedures. Findings indicate that under usual conditions, only about half of health care workers correctly remove their PPE, and very few remove their PPE in the correct order and dispose of it in the proper location. Mosby 2015-07-01 2015-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7132814/ /pubmed/26138659 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.02.005 Text en 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 | Brief Report Zellmer, Caroline Van Hoof, Sarah Safdar, Nasia Variation in health care worker removal of personal protective equipment |
title | Variation in health care worker removal of personal protective equipment |
title_full | Variation in health care worker removal of personal protective equipment |
title_fullStr | Variation in health care worker removal of personal protective equipment |
title_full_unstemmed | Variation in health care worker removal of personal protective equipment |
title_short | Variation in health care worker removal of personal protective equipment |
title_sort | variation in health care worker removal of personal protective equipment |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26138659 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.02.005 |
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