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Building a personal protective equipment monitor team as part of a comprehensive COVID-19 prevention strategy
We instituted Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Monitors as part of our care of COVID-19 patients in high-risk zones. PPE Monitors aided health care personnel (HCP) in donning and doffing, which contributed to nearly zero transmission of COVID-19 to HCP, despite their care of over 1400 COVID-19 pa...
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Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc.
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8372438/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34416314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.08.009 |
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author | Summerlin-Long, Shelley Selimos, Amy Brewer, Brooke Buchanan, Mark Clark, Christa Croyle, Karen Culbreth, Cynthia Monte, Pamela Del DiBiase, Lauren M. Hendrickson, Lori Miller, Pam Schnell, Natalie Schultz, Katherine Stancill, Lisa Teal, Lisa Sickbert-Bennett, Emily Weber, David J. |
author_facet | Summerlin-Long, Shelley Selimos, Amy Brewer, Brooke Buchanan, Mark Clark, Christa Croyle, Karen Culbreth, Cynthia Monte, Pamela Del DiBiase, Lauren M. Hendrickson, Lori Miller, Pam Schnell, Natalie Schultz, Katherine Stancill, Lisa Teal, Lisa Sickbert-Bennett, Emily Weber, David J. |
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description | We instituted Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Monitors as part of our care of COVID-19 patients in high-risk zones. PPE Monitors aided health care personnel (HCP) in donning and doffing, which contributed to nearly zero transmission of COVID-19 to HCP, despite their care of over 1400 COVID-19 patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-83724382021-08-18 Building a personal protective equipment monitor team as part of a comprehensive COVID-19 prevention strategy Summerlin-Long, Shelley Selimos, Amy Brewer, Brooke Buchanan, Mark Clark, Christa Croyle, Karen Culbreth, Cynthia Monte, Pamela Del DiBiase, Lauren M. Hendrickson, Lori Miller, Pam Schnell, Natalie Schultz, Katherine Stancill, Lisa Teal, Lisa Sickbert-Bennett, Emily Weber, David J. Am J Infect Control Brief Report We instituted Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Monitors as part of our care of COVID-19 patients in high-risk zones. PPE Monitors aided health care personnel (HCP) in donning and doffing, which contributed to nearly zero transmission of COVID-19 to HCP, despite their care of over 1400 COVID-19 patients. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-11 2021-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8372438/ /pubmed/34416314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.08.009 Text en © 2021 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier 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 | Brief Report Summerlin-Long, Shelley Selimos, Amy Brewer, Brooke Buchanan, Mark Clark, Christa Croyle, Karen Culbreth, Cynthia Monte, Pamela Del DiBiase, Lauren M. Hendrickson, Lori Miller, Pam Schnell, Natalie Schultz, Katherine Stancill, Lisa Teal, Lisa Sickbert-Bennett, Emily Weber, David J. Building a personal protective equipment monitor team as part of a comprehensive COVID-19 prevention strategy |
title | Building a personal protective equipment monitor team as part of a comprehensive COVID-19 prevention strategy |
title_full | Building a personal protective equipment monitor team as part of a comprehensive COVID-19 prevention strategy |
title_fullStr | Building a personal protective equipment monitor team as part of a comprehensive COVID-19 prevention strategy |
title_full_unstemmed | Building a personal protective equipment monitor team as part of a comprehensive COVID-19 prevention strategy |
title_short | Building a personal protective equipment monitor team as part of a comprehensive COVID-19 prevention strategy |
title_sort | building a personal protective equipment monitor team as part of a comprehensive covid-19 prevention strategy |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8372438/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34416314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.08.009 |
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