Sourcing Personal Protective Equipment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Livingston, Edward H.; Desai, Angel N.; Berkwits, Michael

doi:10.1001/jama.2020.5317

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“…Strategies to navigate the PPE shortage in the era of COVID-19 include importing, reclaiming, reusing, and repurposing PPE; generating and extending supply; eliminating nonessential services; reducing patient contact; and using nonhuman services such as drones to deliver equipment and undertake tasks such as decontamination. 9,10 Multidisciplinary teams are working on creative ways to use existing resources to make effective PPE, including alternatives to N95 respirators. An outbreak simulation study at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in Texas demonstrated that HCWs could be rapidly trained and fit tested to use elastomeric half-mask respirators, which are reusable.…”

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Innovation and Knowledge Sharing Can Transform COVID‐19 Infection Prevention Response

Nathavitharana

Patel

Tierney

et al. 2020

Journal of Hospital Medicine

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Section: Innovation In Infection Preventionmentioning

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Innovation and Knowledge Sharing Can Transform COVID‐19 Infection Prevention Response

Nathavitharana

Patel

Tierney

et al. 2020

Journal of Hospital Medicine

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“…In its current guidance to optimise use of face masks during the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identifies three levels of operational status: conventional, contingency and crisis [13]. This mask would be in the crisis category and would intuitively offer more protection to the wearer than no PPE at all.…”

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A cloth mask for under-resourced healthcare settings in the COVID19 pandemic

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Introduction COVID19 pandemic poses a global threat, with many unknowns. The potential for resource limited countries to suffer huge mortality is of major concern. Prevention and risk reduction strategies are paramount in the current absence of effective treatment or a vaccine. There is a global shortage of personal protective equipment. Aims This short paper describes the rationale for and development of a cloth homemade mask and has a step by step video. Results The template is reproducible around the world and is both washable and cheap. Conclusion This article describes a simple way to make a cloth mask, suitable if medical masks are not available.

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“…For enhanced safety reasons, this equipment may also be used when BSL1 or BSL2 cabinets are used, even if the cabinet provides protection and shield. Due to global shortage of facial masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, this recommendation must be weighed against the local availability of this PPE [47,48]. Health authorities shall optimize the distribution of face masks, prioritizing vulnerable populations, but also protecting frontline healthcare workers and support services, such as clinical laboratories without which the diagnosis, prognostication and therapeutic monitoring of COVID-19 would be impossible [49].…”

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Biosafety measures for preventing infection from COVID-19 in clinical laboratories: IFCC Taskforce Recommendations

Lippi

Adeli

Ferrari

et al. 2020

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM)

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AbstractCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the third coronavirus outbreak that has emerged in the past 20 years, after severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). One important aspect, highlighted by many global health organizations, is that this novel coronavirus outbreak may be especially hazardous to healthcare personnel, including laboratory professionals. Therefore, the aim of this document, prepared by the COVID-19 taskforce of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC), is to provide a set of recommendations, adapted from official documents of international and national health agencies, on biosafety measures for routine clinical chemistry laboratories that operate at biosafety levels 1 (BSL-1; work with agents posing minimal threat to laboratory workers) and 2 (BSL-2; work with agents associated with human disease which pose moderate hazard). We believe that the interim measures proposed in this document for best practice will help minimazing the risk of developing COVID-19 while working in clinical laboratories.

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Sourcing Personal Protective Equipment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 598 publications

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Innovation and Knowledge Sharing Can Transform COVID‐19 Infection Prevention Response

Innovation and Knowledge Sharing Can Transform COVID‐19 Infection Prevention Response

A cloth mask for under-resourced healthcare settings in the COVID19 pandemic

Biosafety measures for preventing infection from COVID-19 in clinical laboratories: IFCC Taskforce Recommendations

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