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IPAC Measures - PPE
CANADIAN
Ministry of Health
COVID-19 Guidance: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Health Care Workers and Health Care Entities [V 1 Jun 10 2022]
Addendum: Guidelines for Pandemic Stockpile Use [V1 Aug 24 2022]
Minister's order & direction to provide information respecting critical supplies & equipment (Jun 8)
Priority Setting of Personal Protective Equipment – Within Health Care Institutions and Community Support Services (Mar 25)
Optimizing the Supply of Personal Protective Equipment During the COVID-19 Pandemic Recommendations from Ontario Health [MOH Feb 25 2021]
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recommendations from Ontario Health on the Use and Conservation of PPE (Updated May 10)
Public Health Agency of Canada
3D printing and other manufacturing of personal protective equipment in response to COVID-19 [Last update Apr 2021]
COVID-19 medical masks and respirators: Overview
COVID-19 medical masks and respirators: Information for health professionals [Nov 2021]
Infection prevention and control for COVID-19: Interim guidance for acute healthcare settings [Last update Jun 2021]
Personal protective equipment (COVID-19): Overview [Last update Nov 2021]
Public Health Ontario
AT A GLANCE COVID-19: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Non-Medical Masks in Congregate Living Settings [2nd Ed Jul 2022]
(Archived) Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Universal Mask Use in Health Care [Archived Dec 2023]
FOCUS ON COVID-19: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Neonatal Resuscitation [1st Rev Jul 2021]
(Archived) FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS First Responders and COVID-19 [Archived Dec 2023]
Frequently Asked Questions on Interim IPAC Recommendations for Use of PPE in Health Care Settings [3rd Revision, Jun 2022]
Putting on Cone N95 Respirator
Putting on Flatfold N95 Respirator
Putting on Full Personal Protective Equipment
Taking off Cone N95 Respirator
Taking off Flatfold N95 Respirator
Recommended Steps: Putting on Personal Protective Equipment
TECHNICAL BRIEF Interim IPAC Recommendations for Use of Personal Protective Equipment for Care of Individuals with Suspect or Confirmed COVID‑19 [2nd edition: Oct 2022]
SYNOPSIS What We Know So Far About… Reuse of Personal Protective Equipment [PHO, Apr 4, 2020]
Other
COVID-19: Disinfection of N95 Single-Use Filtering Facepiece Respirators [INSPQ V5 Sept 30 2021]
Effectiveness, Use and Re-Use of Masks in Hospitals During the Omicron Wave [Evidence Synthesis NEtwork Jan 10 2022]
Health Ethics Alliance. Ethical Framework for the Allocation of Personal Protective Equipment (during COVID-19) (Mar 9)
Interim Update: Masking Guidance for Healthcare Workers [AHS SAG Nov 24 2021]
Personal Protective Equipment [IPAC Canada]
What is the optimal strategy for healthcare worker clothing and personal items across various health care settings to reduce the risk of HCW self-contamination and to reduce the risk of healthcare workers transmitting viruses [AHS SAG Apr 3 2020]
PUBLIC HEALTH UNITS
York Region
COVID–19 Guidance for Selection of Face Masks/Coverings and Personal Protective Equipment (Non-Health Care)[ Mar 12, 2021]
Donated personal protective equipment
Infection prevention and control summary of recommendations for use of personal protective equipment for care of individuals with suspect or confirmed COVID-19 in emergency housing service settings (2021-03-31]
INTERNATIONAL
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Counterfeit Respirators / Misrepresentation of NIOSH-Approval
Use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) When Caring for Patients with Confirmed or Suspected COVID-19 [2020-03-30]
European Centre for Disease Control
Using face masks in the community: first update - Effectiveness in reducing transmission of COVID-19
Options for the decontamination and reuse of respirators in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
Use of gloves in healthcare and non-healthcare settings in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic [2020-07-02]
Guidance for wearing and removing personal protective equipment in healthcare settings for the care of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 [2020-02-28]
Personal protective equipment (PPE) needs in healthcare settings for the care of patients with suspected or confirmed novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) (Feb 2020)
Public Health England
Technical Specifications for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) [Last updated Feb 14 2022]
Considerations for acute personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages
How to Use Your N95 Respirator [Updated Jan 25 2022]
COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE)
COVID-19 Safe ways of working: A visual guide to safe PPE
Personal protective equipment (PPE) – resource for care workers delivering homecare (domiciliary care) during sustained COVID-19 transmission in the UK
Quick guide: Putting on (donning) personal protective equipment (PPE) for aerosol generating procedures (AGPs)
Quick guide: Removal of (doffing) personal protective equipment (PPE) for aerosol generating procedures (AGPs) – Gown version
World Health Organization
Rational use of personal protective equipment for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and considerations during severe shortages [2020-12-23]
Biomedical equipment for COVID-19 case management: inventory tool: harmonized health service capacity assessments in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: interim guidance, 25 June 2020
Infection prevention and control in the context of coronavirus disease (COVID-19): a living guideline, 25 April 2022: updated chapter: mask use, part 1: health care settings
Other
COVID-19: Infection prevention and control recommendations for health and disability care workers [NZ Ministry of Health last update Feb 2 2022]
Effectiveness of N95 Respirator Decontamination and Reuse against SARS-CoV-2 Virus [Emerging Infectious Diseases Sep 2020]
Guidance on the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers in the context of COVID-19 [Australian Government Jun 2021]
In brief Surgical masks, eye protection and PPE guidance [NSW COVID-19 Critical Intelligence Unit Jan 27 2022]
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