Q&A: COVID-19 Elevates Importance of Hand Hygiene To a Whole New Level for Good
May 28, 2020
Deborah Chung: “With the 40% of healthcare workers wanting better hand hygiene training pre-COVID, I can only assume that’s been exponentially surged.”
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Q&A: Reopening After COVID-19: Proceed With Caution
May 28, 2020
Kevin Kavangh, MD: “What worries me the most about reopening is that people going to say, ‘Oh, it’s over with’ and not do any sort of protection, whether it’s social distancing, wearing masks, not gathering in crowds. I really think that people will think, ‘Well, we got this beat.’”
Q&A: ‘Preparedness’ Will Be the Operative Word After COVID-19
May 27, 2020
Jason Tetro: “When healthcare leaders are meeting, I think that they’re going to listen to infection preventionists much more than they have in the past.”
Leading Cleaning Products Called Effective Against Virus That Causes COVID-19
May 27, 2020
Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 are some of the most vulnerable pathogens to the microbicidal agents in many detergents and cleaning solutions, including soaps for personal care and liquid hand washes.
Q&A: How COVID-19 Might Affect Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs
May 25, 2020
Katherine Perez, PharmD: “For patients with COVID-19, I think the jury’s still out as to how we should be using antibiotics in those patients and what the risk of a secondary bacterial infection truly is. And that type of information has not been made available, at least not in huge amounts at this time.”
Q&A: Design Hospitals to Best Fight Infections Like COVID-19
May 22, 2020
Jeffrey Rose: “I think the desire to break apart some of the functionality of the hospital and spread it out into other facilities—like oncology centers or ambulatory surgery centers—to reduce the large population at one building, is going to continue to grow. And in addition, if you design them correctly, you can use those facilities for surge capacity.”
CDC Recommends Resumption of Non-COVID Related Elective Surgeries
May 21, 2020
While starting to perform elective surgeries, hospitals should also keep an eye COVID-19 in their communities and have the resources available to respond to a surge in COVID patients without having to resort to a crisis standard of care.
How to Don, Doff Personal Protective Equipment During COVID-19 Pandemic
May 21, 2020
Both donning and doffing are carefully laid out, but it’s the doffing part of the procedure that might present the most challenge because it involves the discarding of some of the PPE in a manner that most limits the chance of self-contamination or contaminating someone else.
Q&A: COVID-19 Will Affect How Environmental Service Teams Operate
May 20, 2020
Charles Gerba, PhD: Environmental services plays a crucial—and often unsung—role in infection prevention. “Unfortunately, we don’t honor people enough for things they prevented or that never happened.”
Q&A: COVID-19 Lets Telemedicine Prove Itself
May 19, 2020
Daniel F. Shay, Esq.: “COVID-19 is not the last infectious disease that we’re going to encounter…. I think that there are good reasons to use telemedicine to the extent that you can reduce the risk to healthcare practitioners, healthcare professionals, and also to other patients, and, frankly, the general populace.”