Personal Protective Equipment

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending April 15.

Despite some benefits, challenges continue with implemented mitigation strategies for children and IPs. 

Remembering the COVID-19 pandemic and supply chain issues, investigators study the efficacy of reusing N95 FFRs.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending April 8.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending March 25.

The hemodialysis setting presents a challenge for environmental cleaning and disinfection because of the demand for rapid turnover of stations.

Other nations, such as Sweden and Australia, outperformed the US metrics.

The FDA approved the Moderna vaccine as a 2-dose primary series for persons 18 years of age and older earlier this year.

Summary: Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending March 18.

Ratings, ownership, and prior infection control citations of facilities were not consistent outcome indicators.

Pfizer CEO, Albert Bourla, said in nationally televised interview that it is necessary to fend off waning protection.

Multiple studies and reports show that masks in schools are effective, safe, and necessary because COVID-19 is not going away.

The mandate was set to expire on March 18, 2022 and will cover the spring break season.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending March 11.

A comprehensive blueprint on how to be better prepared for the future as COVID-19 becomes endemic and the world faces future pandemics.

Key recommendations in the report include normalizing mask wearing and avoiding the supply chain failures.

A new study supports the conclusion that the “brain fog” reported by many who have recovered from mild COVID-19 infection is real and has an anatomical basis.

Compliance has increased up to 50% on key infection prevention and control practices at a South Carolina health system due to these short emoji-cartoons.

Developers designed a game to teach infection prevention during COVID-19 to senior nursing students.

Dr. Kevin Kavanagh shares his perspective on the new CDC mask guidance.

Investigators used 3 behavior models to study how to increase health care workers’ compliance with infection prevention and control practices.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending February 4.

A public/private enterprise taps into the entrepreneurial urge that will hopefully help the United States avoid the disastrous shortages of personal protective equipment that deviled the health care system in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ICU nurses, more than other clinicians, because they have the most interaction with patients. Non-clinical workers because they may not be knowledgeable enough about mitigation methods, a study states.

Reinfections among study participants most likely occurred outside the hospital setting where workers might let their guard down and not practice nonpharmaceutical mitigation efforts against SARS-CoV-2.

The ability to be an excellent infection preventionist requires lifelong learning and taking the initiative to grow professionally.

The successful combination of products and the adoption and application of science-based practices will help the sterile processing profession rise above challenges to protecting frontline technicians.

Now is the time for infection preventionists to harness the current attention to biopreparedness and use the momentum to build the foundations for strong local programs that can be sustained through future waves of competing priorities.

Dental instruments may not seem as invasive as the instruments used in medical surgeries, but they still pose the same dangers.

Having an infection preventionist on site or as a consultant to lead infection prevention and control training makes a difference. The ability to screen, isolate, or group patients can save lives. Ongoing testing of residents and staff is critical.