Thursday, March 12, 2015

Personal Protective Equipment Training

Correctly putting on, taking off and disposing of personal protective equipment can be vitally important. The CDC offers detailed instructions. The New England Journal of Medicine just released an excellent video article that goes through all the PPE steps very clearly. 

Websites Referenced
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/healthcare-us/ppe/guidance.html
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMvcm1412105  
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25760240

Citation for NEJM article
Ortega R, Bhadelia N, Obanor O, Cyr K, Yu P, McMahon M, Gotzmann D. Putting On
and Removing Personal Protective Equipment. N Engl J Med. 2015 Mar 11. [Epub
ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25760240. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMvcm1412105