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Mashup Score: 12Switching from disposable to reusable PPE - 24 day(s) ago
### What you need to know Sustainable sourcing, use, and disposal of personal protective equipment (PPE) can help healthcare providers reduce the environmental impacts of their work. In this article we review supporting evidence and provide guidance for healthcare institutions to adopt reusable forms of PPE as safe, cost saving, and sustainable alternatives to single use disposables. The first step to reducing the environmental impact of PPE usage is to reduce unnecessary consumption of supplies.12 However, we discuss those situations where PPE use is unavoidable, and offer more sustainable alternatives with a focus on reusable isolation and surgical gowns, masks, and eye protection. The evidence for alternatives to single use gloves, surgical drapes, and other PPE is still emerging.34 Global PPE usage has been rising over the past several decades,5 driven by heightened attention to employee safety (particularly that of healthcare workers), increasingly stringent regulations for work e
Source: www.bmj.comCategories: General Medicine News, General Journals & SocietTweet
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Mashup Score: 9Switching from disposable to reusable PPE - 29 day(s) ago
### What you need to know Sustainable sourcing, use, and disposal of personal protective equipment (PPE) can help healthcare providers reduce the environmental impacts of their work. In this article we review supporting evidence and provide guidance for healthcare institutions to adopt reusable forms of PPE as safe, cost saving, and sustainable alternatives to single use disposables. The first step to reducing the environmental impact of PPE usage is to reduce unnecessary consumption of supplies.12 However, we discuss those situations where PPE use is unavoidable, and offer more sustainable alternatives with a focus on reusable isolation and surgical gowns, masks, and eye protection. The evidence for alternatives to single use gloves, surgical drapes, and other PPE is still emerging.34 Global PPE usage has been rising over the past several decades,5 driven by heightened attention to employee safety (particularly that of healthcare workers), increasingly stringent regulations for work e
Source: www.bmj.comCategories: General Medicine News, General Journals & SocietTweet-
This Sustainable Practice article reviews evidence and provides guidance for healthcare institutions to adopt reusable forms of #PPE as safe, cost saving, and sustainable alternatives to single use disposables https://t.co/YPtnwjZhEA
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Diathermy and bone sawing are high aerosol yield procedures
Source: boneandjoint.org.ukCategories: Latest Headlines, RheumatologyTweet-
This study suggests that additional precautions should be recommended for diathermy and bone sawing, such as enhanced personal protective equipment or the use of suction devices to reduce aerosol exposure. #BJR #Ortho #PPE https://t.co/BdiaWZ7aMU https://t.co/GrcowwbINQ
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Mashup Score: 5MPs criticise government over failure to control PPE stocks and lack of future planning - 10 month(s) ago
The government has no proper control over existing stocks of personal protective equipment (PPE) and no clear plan for an emergency stockpile for any future pandemic, MPs have concluded in a highly critical report.1 The Public Accounts Committee’s report also said that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which was established in 2021 after Public Health England was disbanded, was set up with…
Source: The BMJCategories: General Medicine Journals and Societies, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
The UK government has no proper control over existing stocks of PPE and no clear plan for an emergency stockpile for any future pandemic, MPs have concluded in a highly critical report https://t.co/sqr4ApdWmx #PPE #Covid
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Unlike hospitals, ambulatory settings have traditionally lacked adequate infrastructure and resources to support infection prevention and monitoring.
Source: Infection Control TodayCategories: Infectious Disease, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Unlike hospitals, ambulatory settings have traditionally lacked adequate infrastructure and resources to support infection prevention and monitoring. https://t.co/ipzlOZeGoJ #office #outpatient #PPE #handhygiene #evs #environmentalcleaning #covid19 #CDC
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Implementing an aerosol box during aerosol-generating medical procedures significantly reduces healthcare practitioner contamination, but also delays the time to successful intubation, which can negatively affect patient outcomes.
Source: HCP LiveCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
New study shows using an aerosol box during AGMPs can reduce HCP contamination but may also delay intubation. #COVID19 #PPE #Healthcare https://t.co/Tdj8BCEtba
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Mashup Score: 1‘Into the Covid ICU’: A New Doctor Bears Witness to the Isolation, Inequities of Pandemic - 1 year(s) ago
Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez graduated from medical school during the pandemic. We follow the rookie doctor for her first months working at a hospital in Fresno, California, as she grapples with isolat…
Source: Kaiser Health NewsCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Medical providers faced shortages of staff and #PPE, and an overwhelming number of cases and deaths. @JennyAGold took us into the covid ICU with Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez, who graduated from medical school during the pandemic. https://t.co/10OulUjGxR
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The UK High Consequence Infectious Diseases (HCID) Network of high level isolation units (HLIU) provides care for patients with contact-transmissible or airborne-transmissible highly infectious and highly dangerous diseases. In most HCID units the healthcare workers (HCW) wear personal protective equipment (PPE) ensembles incorporating a powered air purifying respirator (PAPR) for head and…
Source: Journal of Hospital InfectionCategories: Infectious Disease, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Validation of personal protective equipment #PPE ensembles, incorporating powered air purifying respirators protected from contamination, for the care of patients with high consequence infectious diseases. #infectiousdisease https://t.co/CsVChxg87m https://t.co/RkLJcrQheb
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Integrating home and community, long-term care facilities are supposed to be a haven for patients and their families. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping the patients and the staff safe was a constant battle. An infection preventionist who lived through it discusses the challenges at her facility.
Source: Infection Control TodayCategories: Infectious Disease, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
An infection preventionist describes the challenges of a LTC facility during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://t.co/iyRCZiK63O #longtermcare #nursinghome #infectionpreventionist #COVID19 #LTCfacilities #masking #PPE #elderlycare #dementia #isolation #quarantine
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This study is the first large scale evaluation of particulate filtration efficiency (PFE) of three models of N95 filtering facepiece respirators (FFR) following clinical usage and vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) decontamination. Three variables were assessed for effect on PFE following VHP decontamination: VHP sterilizer model, N95 respirator model, and prior N95 clinical usage. The VHP…
Source: Journal of Hospital InfectionCategories: Infectious Disease, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
This study is the first large-scale evaluation of particulate filtration efficiency #PFE of three models of #N95 filtering facepiece respirators following clinical use and vaporized hydrogen peroxide decontamination #PPE #Decontamination https://t.co/DqEoTTLedu https://t.co/26KvZ1GhM3
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This Sustainable Practice article reviews evidence and provides guidance for healthcare institutions to adopt reusable forms of #PPE as safe, cost saving, and sustainable alternatives to single use disposables https://t.co/YPtnwjZhEA