Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines urge medical professionals to wear gowns and gloves when they are working with patients who are infected with antibiotic-resistant ...

Isolation gowns When manufacturers began prioritizing N95s and other masks, isolation gown supply compressed. Isolation gowns surpassed N95 masks as the top PPE shortage concern by mid-April 2020, ...

Can We Contain Ebola in Our Healthcare Facilities? Biocontainment Units for Patients With Ebola The Art of Donning and Doffing PPE Caring for the Caregivers The Art of Donning and Doffing PPE If you ...

Health-care workers' use of disposable gowns and gloves upon entering all patient rooms on an ICU, versus only in rooms on standard isolation protocol, helped reduce patient acquisition of MRSA by ...

Several years ago I helped care for a man who had been hospitalized with a severe infection of the abdominal wall. When his primary doctors discovered that the bacteria responsible was resistant to ...

The Butler County location of an international packaging company is producing millions of isolation gowns being delivered nationwide to the epicenters of the coronavirus pandemic. Production of the ...

Every time healthcare workers enter isolation units in which COVID-19 patients or those with other communicable diseases are being treated, they first don a dedicated isolation gown that must be ...

A hospital ought to be the last place to get a life-threatening infection, but it happens. A new study helps explain why. Researchers asked real hospital workers to remove gowns and gloves smeared ...

Anti-infection policies requiring isolation of patients and wearing of gowns and gloves by hospital personnel may hinder patient care, a Duke University study suggests. “Our study raises concerns that ...

ATLANTA - In a sense, the seasonal flu helped WellS tar Health System gear up for the pandemic. The 11-hospital Georgia system began stockpiling medical supplies in September of 2019, anticipating ...