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2. Personal protective equipment - Wikipedia

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   Personal protective equipment (PPE) is protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer's body from injury or infection. The hazards addressed by protective equipment include physical, electrical, heat, chemical, biohazards , and airborne particulate matter .

3. Source control (respiratory disease) - Wikipedia

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   Health care personnel and patients with COVID-19 symptoms were recommended to use surgical masks if available, as they are more protective. [38] Masking patients reduces the personal protective equipment recommended by CDC for health care personnel under crisis shortage conditions. [39]

4. Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance

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   Additional recommendations for the deployment phase included increased personal protective equipment (PPE) use, better management of heat stress, and improved reporting of exposures, illnesses, and injuries. NIOSH also recommended the creation of a decision matrix to determine the need for biological monitoring of workers.

5. US CDC asks states to make worker protective gear available ...

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   The CDC said it asked state health departments to work with their agriculture department counterparts and partners in communities to prioritize the distribution of personal protective equipment ...

6. Infection prevention and control - Wikipedia

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   Breathable personal protective equipment improves user-satisfaction and may offer a similar level of protection. [21] In addition, adding tabs and other modifications to the protective equipment may reduce the risk of contamination during donning and doffing (putting on and taking off the equipment). [21]

7. Universal precautions - Wikipedia

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   Universal precautions are an infection control practice. Under universal precautions all patients were considered to be possible carriers of blood-borne pathogens. The guideline recommended wearing gloves when collecting or handling blood and body fluids contaminated with blood, wearing face shields when there was danger of blood splashing on mucous membranes ,and disposing of all needles and ...