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Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust New Strain Respiratory Virus Policy Appendix 1 SUMMARY OF INFECTION CONTROL GUIDANCENFECTION CONTROL GUIDANCE Action card First cases of New pandemic strains: influenza/new respiratory infection e.g. SARS • Maximum isolation precautions • Minimum safe numbers staff to be involved • Full PPE including FFP3 respiratory protection • Early Health Protection Agency involvement • Urgent virological investigations • Early oseltamivir if meets case definition and within 48 hours onset • Management of patient secretions/disposal of PPE appropriately • Scrupulous hand hygiene Authorities Document Control Information Author: Sue Daiilly Lead Nurse Infection Type: Policy Control Sponsor: Paula Shobbrook Director of Infection Scope: Major Prevention and Control Reference: CP104 Issue Number: 2 Date May 2010 Status: Final Page 22 of 27
Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust New Strain Respiratory Virus Policy Appendix 2: Putting on and removing personal protective equipment Putting on PPE The level of PPE used will vary according to the procedure being carried out, and not all items of PPE will always be required. PPE should be put on before entering a side room or cohorted area. If full PPE is required, for example for a potentially infectious aerosol –generating procedure, all staff in the room or entering within one hour of the procedure should wear the following PPE put on in the following order: 1 Gown 2 FFP3 mask 3 Eye protection – at this stage goggles are required 4 Disposable gloves The order given above is practical but the order for putting on is less crucial than the order of removal given below: Removal of PPE PPE should be removed in an order that minimises the potential for crosscontamination. Before leaving the side room or cohorted area, gloves, gown and eye protection should be removed (in that order, where worn) and disposed of as clinical waste. After leaving the area, the FFP3 mask can be removed and disposed of. Guidance on the order of removal of PPE is as follows: 1 Gloves Grab the outside of the glove with the opposite gloved hand: peel off. Hold the removed glove in the gloved hand Slide the fingers of the un-gloved hand under the remaining gloves at the wrist Peel the second glove off over the first glove and dispose of in clinical waste bin. 2Gown Unfasten Pull the gown away from the neck and shoulders, touching the inside of the gown only. Turn the gown inside out, fold or roll into a bundle and dispose of in clinical waste bin 3 Goggles eye protection To remove, handle by headband or earpieces and discard as clinical waste If not disposable clean with disinfectant wipe Authorities Document Control Information Author: Sue Daiilly Lead Nurse Infection Type: Policy Control Sponsor: Paula Shobbrook Director of Infection Scope: Major Prevention and Control Reference: CP104 Issue Number: 2 Date May 2010 Status: Final Page 23 of 27
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