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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

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23 Apr DOH revised advice on PPE

Face Masks

Evidence re: face masks
  • 5 June - WHO updated guidelines
  • 9 Apr - questions submitted to Clinical Evidence Taskforce​​ - response - 1.** The Taskforce acknowledges the tremendous importance of IPC/PPE-related questions to clinicians working across the heath system during the pandemic. We have now established links with the Commonwealth Government’s Infection Control Expert Group (ICEG) and the Australian College of Infection Prevention and Control (ACIPC) to support the development of national evidence-based guidance for IPC and PPE-related issues in clinical care settings. 
    ​6 Apr - WHO advice on the use of masks in the community and for health care workers
  • BMJ Open - ​first RCT of cloth masks - "Further research is needed
    to inform the widespread use of cloth masks globally.  However, as a precautionary measure, cloth masks should not be recommended for HCWs, particularly in
    high-risk situations.
    "
  • UNSW - "The use of cloth masks by healthcare works...should be discouraged."
  • Annals of Work Exposures & Health - "common fabric materials may provide marginal protection against nanoparticles including those in the size ranges of virus-containing particles in exhaled breath"
  • Nature - "results indicate that surgical face masks could prevent transmission of human coronaviruses and influenza viruses from symptomatic individuals."
  • The Lancet - comparison of face mask use, recommendations by different health authorities
  • BMJ - "The use of reusable cloth masks is widespread globally...but there is no clinical research to inform their use and most policies offer no guidance on them."

​DIY Facemasks
​(NB evidence as above)
  • Transition Newcastle/Upcycle - double layer cotton face mask pattern and ordering
  • Youtube - no sew face mask tutorial
  • DIY Mask - Henry Ford Allegiance Health, video
  • FastCompany - "The 4 best masks you can make yourself"
  • Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies - Facebook group

Cleaning masks
  • UV-C P95 mask sterilisation
  • John Ferguson stated that regular wash with detergent is adequate to defeat coronavirus, hot wash (60C) not necessary - email Kathleen Wild 29 Mar 20, Hunter GP

 - Retailers - Surgical Mask Request Form PHN
  • HNECCPHN - Surgical mask Request Form
  • Swabiopharm -  [email protected]
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Donning and doffing

  • RACGP part 4 doffing PPE
  • ​Department of Health - COVID-19 Infection Control Training 30 minute online module
  • RACGP - Correct Use of PPE
  • Waitemata District Health Board - PPE correct use, 5 minute video
  • CDC - donning & doffing instructions (illustrated guide)

Cleaning and disinfection

Environmental cleaning
  • Clinical Excellence Commission -  Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection 
  • CDC - Aerosol & Surface Distribution of SARS-COV-2 in Hospital Wards, Wuhan, China, 2020, Vol 26, #7, July 2020

Front Desk Shields

  • Just Signage - acrylic sneeze guards, standard sizes or made to measure

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Face Shields

  • 3D Printed face shield - design and instructions​
  • other 3D free face masks contact [email protected]
  • ​​Home made face shields - UnityPoint Health video tutorial
  • Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies - Facebook group

Hand sanitiser

Home made sanitiser
  • ​WHO recipe for 10 litres
  • ​​WHO recipe for 1 litre
 
​Retailers
  • Earps distillery - online order form sanitiser
  • AminoZ - online order form, $20/L sanitiser

Gowns

  • Performance Fabrics - Apr 25 gowns ordered by MS

Scrubs

  • ​Fun Scrubs
  • Hunter Scrubs

Social distancing

3 Jun - BBC article on social distancing - why 1.5m?
Direct links to HealthPathway COVID-19 Pages (Pathway most relevant to this topic is underlined)

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