PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)

PPE is an acronym that you've likely heard a lot in the past half years—particularly in terms of shortages for epidemic prevention materials. It stands for personal protective equipment, which is filtering facepiece respirators (FFR), protective clothing, goggles, or other equipment designed to protect the wearer's body from injury or infection. It is an important method for the wearers to stop the spread of COVID-19 and keep the medical professionals (doctors, nurses, etc.) currently on the pandemic's frontlines safe.

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How to wear PPE personal protective equipment?

Step 1

Always put on essential required safety personal protective equipment when handling either a suspected, probable or confirmed case of viral haemorragic fever.

Step 2

The dressing and undressing of PPE should be supervised by another trained member of the team.

Step 3

Gather all the necessary items of PPE beforehand. Put on the scrub suit in the changing room.

Step 4

Put on rubber boots. If not available, make sure you have closed, puncture and fluid resistant shoes and put on overshoes.

Step 5

Place the imperneable gown over the scrubs.

Step 6

Put on face protection: a. Put on a medical mask. b. Put on goggles or a face shield.

Step 7

If available, put a head cover on at this time.

Step 8

Perform hand hygiene.

Step 9

Put on gloves (over cuff).

Step 10

If an impermeable gown is not available, place waterproof apron over gown.

While wearing PPE, avoid touching or adjusting the safety protective equipment, remove gloves if they become torn or damaged, change gloves between patients, perform hand hygiene before putting on new gloves.

— Cited from www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/put_on_ppequipment.pdf

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