How to Reduce PPE Facial Pressure Injuries in Frontline Health Care Workers
A new study has found that arming frontline workers with a 'care bundle' of baby wipes, Aquaphor and silicone tape ...
Tag: Frontline Responders
Holding the Line on Biodefense: Supporting First Line Response to Large-Scale Biological Events
The Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense will host a virtual meeting on March 23, 2021 to explore the needs of the ...
Factors Influencing Health Care Workers’ Willingness to Respond to Duty During Outbreaks and Bioterrorist Event
Health care workers are perhaps the most important asset in an infectious disease emergency, yet these individuals have their own ...
How Health Care Systems Might Better Manage Multiple Natural Disaster, Outbreak Surges
Health care systems could save lives and minimize losses under multiple disasters and waves of COVID-19 by optimizing resource allocation ...
Strengths and Challenges of Responding to Dual Disasters: Pandemics and Hurricanes
A new study of how the 2020 major hurricanes and the COVID-19 pandemic affected each other as well as disaster ...
Hydroxychloroquine as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: Randomized Clinical Trial Shows No Benefit
U of M trial shows hydroxychloroquine does not prevent COVID-19 in health care workers University of Minnesota Medical School physician ...
The Mental Health Impact of Pandemics for Front Line Health Care Staff
New research estimates the high prevalence of common mental health disorders in health care workers based in pandemic-affected hospitals, aiming ...
W. Virginia CBRN Response Enterprise Assists with COVID-19 Testing Innovation Roll Out
Members of the West Virginia National Guard's Task Force Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Response Enterprise (TF-CRE) are helping ...
Fighting Pandemics with Plasma (The Other Kind)
While researchers conduct clinical trials on use of convalescent blood serum as a therapeutic for COVID-19, there's a very different ...
Talc and Petroleum Jelly Top List of Skin Protectants for Frontline Responders Wearing PPE
For frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) like face visors, googles, and respiratory protective ...
Clearing the Path: Responding to Disasters During a Crisis
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is convening a diverse group of public-private partners to present, Clearing ...
HHS Pushes Out COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Playbook, Distribution Strategy
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Defense (DoD) today released new documents outlining the ...
Smoke From Wildfires Can Worsen COVID-19 Risk, Putting Firefighters in Even More Danger
Two forces of nature are colliding in the western United States, and wildland firefighters are caught in the middle. Emerging ...
UCLA Study Backs Decontamination of Single-Use N95 Respirators to Mitigate Shortages
N95 respirators, which are widely worn by health care workers treating patients with COVID-19 and are designed to be used ...
Relief Funds Being Used to Pay Hospital Shareholders at the Expense of Frontline Health Care Workers
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin is raising questions for U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar about the use of ...
NDAA Amendment Proposes Further Scale Up of PPE and Diagnostic Supplies
“We need more testing supplies, more testing, and more personal protective equipment for workers on the frontlines of this pandemic.” ...
The Coping Mechanisms the DRC is Putting in Place As it Faces Ebola, Measles and COVID-19
Ebola, a viral haemorrhagic fever of humans and other primates, has become endemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). ...
COVID-19 Has Led to More Deep Cleaning: Which Disinfectants and Masks Work Best Together?
The spread of coronavirus has spurred massive efforts to consistently disinfect everything from office buildings to schools to city buses. ...
A Replaceable, More Efficient Filter for N95 Masks
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there's been a worldwide shortage of face masks -- particularly, the N95 ones worn by ...
How is Used PPE Disposed of During the Coronavirus Pandemic?
All over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has seen more and more people admitted to hospital, where the high infection ...
