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CDC: Guidance for the Selection and Use of PPE in Healthcare Settings
How to correctly don and remove PPE.
CDC: Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of PPE and Equipment
CDC’s optimization strategies for PPE offer options for use when PPE supplies are stressed, running low, or absent.
CDC: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in Healthcare Settings
The CDC has developed this for training healthcare personnel on how to select and use personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect themselves from exposure to microbiological hazards in the healthcare setting.
CDC: Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings
Guidance to healthcare providers on hand hygiene best practices, explanations, techniques, and methods.
FDA: Surgical Mask and Gown Conservation Strategies – Letter to Healthcare Providers
FDA letter to healthcare providers summarizing the CDC guidance for conserving surgical masks and gowns.
IHI: Recommendations for PPE Conservation: Restrict, Reduce, Re-Use
This guidance from IHI outlines necessary strategies to conserve the supply of personal protective equipment (PPEs) until production is sufficient to meet the needs of the health care workforce.
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CDC: PPE Burn Rate Calculator
This Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Burn Rate Calculator tool helps healthcare and non-healthcare facilities plan and optimize the use of PPE for response to COVID-19.
Project C.U.R.E.: PPE supplier
Project C.U.R.E. works to connect U.S. organizations with PPE.
CDC: Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of Facemasks
This CDC guidance offers a series of strategies or options to optimize supplies of facemasks in healthcare settings when there is limited supply.
Battelle: decontaminates N95 respirators for reuse
Battelle was approved by the FDA as a Critical Care Decontamination System, which can decontaminate N95 respirators for reuse.
CDC: Interim Guidance on Management of COVID-19 in Correctional and Detention Facilities
These PPE practices from the CDC are appropriate in any contexts where staff are working closely with people who may be COVID+.
CDC: How to Protect Yourself & Others
CDC recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain.
