PATIENT SAFETY

Personal Protective Equipment

A clinical tutorial on standard and transmission-based precautions, infection risk mitigation, and protocols for the safe donning, doffing, and reuse of personal protective equipment.
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  • 2 - 3 hours
  • Shareable Certificate
  • Expert discussion

Course description 

Learn about strategies to minimize risk of infection and the safe donning, doffing, and reuse of Personal Protective Equipment.
Reviewed by SURGhub, December 2023

This course is provided by:

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  • Speciality: Non-Technical Skills
  • Sub-speciality: Infection Prevention and Control
  • Target audience:Designed for personnel working in a hospital setting providing direct patient care and/or performing equipment reprocessing. Nurses, surgeons, anaesthetists.
  • Level: Basic
  • Language: English
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This course is provided by:

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Learning objectives

  • Define PPE
  • List the components of PPE
  • Define standard, contact, droplet, and airborne precautions
  • Describe how communicable diseases are spread in hospital setting
  • Explain how COVID-19 is transmitted and how PPE can be used to prevent infection
  • Describe strategies to minimize infection risk
  • Demonstrate the correct way to don and doff PPE
  • Indicate when and how PPE can be reused

Course structure 

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Lifebox is a global nonprofit organization founded to tackle the global crisis of unsafe surgery. By investing in tools, training, and partnerships, we address the critical gaps in surgical systems to make surgery and anesthesia safer worldwide. Lifebox focuses on three core areas - anesthesia safety, surgical teamwork, and reducing surgical infection - to save lives through safer surgery. To date Lifebox has worked in 116 countries and trained 12,000 healthcare providers - making 118 million surgeries safer. lifebox.org

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