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Wear compliance and donning/doffing of respiratory protection for bioaerosols or infectious agents : a review of the effectiveness, safety, and guidelines / Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, issuing body.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Rapid response report (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health)
- Rapid response report
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Airborne infection--Prevention.
- Airborne infection.
- Personal protective equipment.
- Breathing apparatus.
- Protective Clothing.
- Respiratory Protective Devices.
- Cross Infection--prevention & control.
- Particulate Matter.
- Medical Subjects:
- Protective Clothing.
- Respiratory Protective Devices.
- Cross Infection--prevention & control.
- Particulate Matter.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (17 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Wear compliance and donning/doffing of respiratory protection for bioaerosols or infectious agents
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa, ON : Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, [2014]
- Summary:
- Particulate contamination in a health care facility is an ongoing concern for health care workers. Under certain conditions, such as pandemics like SARS or avian flu, there will be an increased risk of bioaerosol infection to these workers. Particles capable of becoming aerosolized and causing infection represent a diverse range of sizes, and as a result have a varying degree of microbial contamination and penetrance through barriers which will determine what type of respiratory protection is required. In a health care setting the routes of transmission for these particles can be broadly grouped into three categories; splashes, droplets and bioaerosols. The final category is aerosols and these particles are <5 μm in size and are therefore neutrally buoyant, will remain suspended for long periods of time and are capable of travelling long distances in shifting wind currents. Upon inhalation they will penetrate down into the alveolar level of the lungs. Infected individuals may produce these aerosols when coughing or sneezing, though the production from these sources is limited. More often these aerosols are produced from medical processes such as intubation, bronchoscopy, non-invasive ventilation, high-frequency oscillating ventilation, induction of sputum and surgical procedures involving high speed devices. As a result of these processes the health care environment provides challenging and problematic issues when attempting to protect workers from transmission infection. With the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, 42% of the cases that occurred in Canada were found in health care workers (HCWs) who had suffered from transmission from their patients. Hospitals now have strict respiratory protection programs in place but many studies have shown that compliance of HCWs to the guidelines is lacking especially for use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and proper donning/doffing protocols. In addition it has been postulated that in future pandemic situations the supply of respiratory PP
- Notes:
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (NCBI, viewed October 24, 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "19 August 2014".
- OCLC:
- 895540497
- Publisher Number:
- 244025 CaOOCEL (Public Documents)
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