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Personal Protective Equipment
The Infection Control Today® personal protective equipment page offers written and video content on the proper use and—during the time of COVID-19 surges—reuse of PPE, including masks, respirators, gloves, gowns, face shields, goggles, and more. What are the proper donning and doffing methods? How long can PPE be extended? How are these items decontaminated? What comprises proper fit testing? Our experts will tell you.
Birx: Using Science and Data, The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Not Over
September 22, 2022
Ambassador Deborah Birx, MD, an American diplomat and infectious disease expert, once again joins Infection Control Today®, this time to talk about President Biden’s recent comment that the pandemic is over, and what can be done to mitigate the circumstances.
Transforming a Pandemic Response Unit From an Inpatient Nursing Unit
September 15, 2022
With COVID-19 beginning to surge, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center needed to create a response unit from what had been an inpatient nursing unit. A recent study explains how this conversion was effective and can stand as an example for other facilities.
Preparing for Future Viral Outbreaks in a Global Community
September 12, 2022
Ambassador Deborah Birx, MD, believes not enough is doing to prepare for future pandemics. What are her recommendations? Find out in this final installment of her interview with Infection Control Today.
Weekly Rounds: A Sepsis Review, LTC Staff Staying or Going? and More
September 10, 2022
Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending September 9.
Boots on the Ground, or These Boots Are Made for Walking? Some LTC Staff Choose the Latter
September 07, 2022
Long-term care facilities were once normally happier places, but COVID-19 changed the individuals working and living there. PPEs, testing, overwork, underpayment, and too many isolations have chased health care workers away and forced the facilities' population to plummet. Can anything be done?
Weekly Rounds: Interviews With Ambassador Birx, Ultrasound Transducer Decontamination, and More
August 19, 2022
Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending August 19.
Viewpoint: We Cannot Afford to Surrender to COVID-19 Now
August 17, 2022
Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relaxed recommendations which neither control or prevent a rapidly evolving and disabling disease, COVID-19. However, we must maintain effective efforts to control spread of the virus.
Weekly Rounds: CDC Changes, Ultrasound Contamination Concerns, and More
August 14, 2022
Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending August 12.
Contamination of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Transducers Alarms Key Clinician
August 11, 2022
Using ultrasound transducers is often necessary in the emergency department, but too often the proper procedures to protect against health care associated infections are not followed, and clinicians are worried.
Infection Preventionists’ Detective Work Stopped an Outbreak of CRAB
August 09, 2022
A carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) cluster was identified and stopped because of due diligence of the infection preventionists at an acute care facility in Louisiana.