Navegação por assunto "Personal Protective Equipment"
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Adoption of personal protective measures by ordinary citizens during the COVID-19 outbreak in Japan
(2020-04-06)[Abstract]. Objectives: To clarify the implementation status of personal protective measures by the ordinary 34 citizens in Japan during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Methods: This was the cross-sectional ... -
Association of Personal Protective Equipment Use with Successful Protection Against COVID-19 Infection Among
(2020-04-28)The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed a major challenge for protecting health care workers (HCWs) against the infection. Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in health care workplace is recommended ... -
Cabine de proteção para o tratamento de pacientes com COVID-19, maio/2020 - Atualização: C
(2020-05)Trata-se de uma estrutura protetora em formato retangular que funciona como uma espécie de barreira física, sendo posicionada sobre o paciente com COVID-19. Dentro desta cabine, o indivíduo pode realizar a VNI, ter a ... -
Can we use these masks? Rapid Assessment of the Inhalation Resistance Performance of Uncertified Medical Face Masks in the Context of Restricted Resources Imposed during a Public Health Emergency
(2020-05-19)In the case of a public health emergency such as the COVID-19 pandemic, access to large quantities of appropriate personal protection equipment (PPE) has presented a significant problem. A shortage of face masks and ... -
Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 detection in nasopharyngeal swab and saliva
(2020-05-24)We prospectively compared the efficacy of PCR detection of SARS-CoV-2 between paired nasopharyngeal and saliva samples in 76 patients including ten COVID-19 patients. The overall concordance rate of the virus detection ... -
Covid-19 Pandemic: What Changes for Dentists and Oral Medicine Experts? A Narrative Review and Novel Approaches to Infection Containment
(2020-06)The authors performed a narrative review on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome- CoronaVirus-2 ( SARS-CoV-2) and all infectious agents with the primary endpoints to illustrate the most accepted models of safety protocols in ... -
COVID-19: evaluación de riesgos y manejo de trabajadores de la salud expuestos a COVID-19: recomendaciones
(2020-05-11)Recomendaciones para la seguridad de los equipos de salud expuestos al COVID-19. Los trabajadores de salud, y otros trabajadores esenciales, están en la primera línea de la respuesta al brote de COVID-19 y, como tales, ... -
COVID-19: recomendaciones para uso de EPP
(2020-07)Este documento resume las recomendaciones para la correcta utilización de los elementos de protección personal, en la contingencia de COVID-19. -
The covid‐19 pandemic, personal protective equipment, and respirator: a narrative review
(2020-06-08)The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has touched almost every continent. Personal protective equipment (PPE) is the final line of protection of healthcare workers (HCW). There is variation as well as controversy ... -
Editor’s commentary: Rapid reviews of PPE – an update
(2020-04-14)In early March 2020, as the COVID-19 crisis began to break in the UK, the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine set up the COVID-19 Evidence Service (https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/). We invited questions from policymakers, ... -
Education interventions to improve healthcare workers’ adherence to Standard Precautions for the control of health care-associated infections
(2020-03-22)What is this? Standard Precautions, including using personal protective equipment (PPE) or adhering to safe handling of needles are essential for the prevention and spread of infections, such as COVID-19, in healthcare ... -
Electronic Personal Protective Equipment: A Strategy to Protect Emergency Department Providers in the Age of COVID-19
(2020-04-02)[Abstract]. Emergent policy changes related to telemedicine and the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) during the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) have created opportunities for technology-based clinical ... -
Equipos de Protección Individual (EPI): categorización de riesgo de acuerdo al nivel de atención
(2020)Incluye una tabla que resume los cinco niveles de atención en paralelo con el nivel de equipos de protección individual para el personal de los servicios. -
Evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews for controlling the dissemination of COVID-19 infection. A narrative review
(2020-07)BACKGROUND: COVID-19 infection has high transmissibility and several measures have been adopted for controlling its dissemination. OBJECTIVE: To identify and summarize the evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews (SRs) ... -
Facial protection for healthcare workers during pandemics: a scoping review
(2020-04-23)Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages, requiring mask reuse or improvisation. We provide a review of medical-grade facial protection (surgical ... -
Gloves, gowns and masks for reducing transmission of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the hospital setting: lack of evidence on their specific effects
(2020-03-19)What is this? Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a common hospital-acquired pathogen that increases morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs. Transmission of MRSA from patient to patient in hospital is ... -
Guantes, batas y máscaras para reducir la transmisión del Staphylococcus aureus resistente a la meticilina (SARM) en el entorno hospitalario: falta de evidencia sobre sus efectos específicos
(2020-03-24)¿Qué es esto? El Staphylococcus aureus resistente a la meticilina (SARM) es un patógeno intrahospitalario común que aumenta la morbilidad, la mortalidad y los costos de atención médica. La transmisión de SARM de paciente ... -
Healthcare worker mask reuse in a global pandemic: Using idle resources to create an inexpensive, scalable, and accessible UV system for N95 sterilization
(2020-04-24)As the current COVID-19 pandemic illustrates, not all hospitals and other facilities are equipped with enough personal protective equipment to meet the demand in a crisis. Healthcare workers around the world utilize N95 ... -
Lineamientos mínimos para la fabricación de tapabocas y otros insumos en el marco de la emergencia sanitaria por enfermedad COVID-19
(2020-03)[Introducción] Este documento establece algunos lineamientos para la elaboración temporal de tapabocas y otros insumos, durante la emergencia sanitaria declarada en el Decreto 417 del 17 de marzo de 2020, con el fin de ...