Practical Solutions for Healthcare Worker Protection During the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in the Ambulatory, Emergency, and Inpatient Settings

Anthony Kraus; Oluwafunbi Awoniyi; Yousef Almalki; Adham Sameer A. Bardeesi; Bridget Edwards; Fahad Alhajjaj; Bader Alossaimi; Todd Benham; Michalengelo Bortolin; Srihari Cattamanchi; Michael Court; John Groves; Anthony Hernandez; Fadi Issa; Gavin MacGregor-Skinner; Philip Manners; Michael Molloy; Douglas Romney; Amalia Voskanyan; Debra Weiner; Madeline Yogman; Alexander Hart; Gregory Ciottone

doi:10.1097/JOM.0000000000002008

Practical Solutions for Healthcare Worker Protection During the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in the Ambulatory, Emergency, and Inpatient Settings

Anthony Kraus
, Oluwafunbi Awoniyi
, Yousef Almalki
, Adham Sameer A. Bardeesi
, Bridget Edwards
, Fahad Alhajjaj
, Bader Alossaimi
, Todd Benham
, Michalengelo Bortolin
, Srihari Cattamanchi
, Michael Court
, John Groves
, Anthony Hernandez
, Fadi Issa
, Gavin MacGregor-Skinner
, Philip Manners
, Michael Molloy
, Douglas Romney
, Amalia Voskanyan
, Debra Weiner

Madeline Yogman, Alexander Hart, Gregory Ciottone

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Objective:Protecting healthcare workers is an essential component of a successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The resource intensive nature of infectious disease protection, budgetary constraints, and global shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) make this a daunting task. Practical, easily implemented strategies for healthcare workers (HCW) protection are needed.Methods:We cross-reference the "Systems, Space, Staff, and Stuff"paradigm from disaster management and the "Hierarchy of Controls"approach to infection prevention from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to generate a narrative overview of worker protection strategies relevant to COVID-19.Results:Alternative types of PPE, management of hazards, and reorganizing how people work can optimize HCWs protection.Conclusions:A comprehensive PPE strategy can utilize the "systems, space, staff, stuff"paradigm of disaster management to identify new or underutilized solutions to HCWs protection.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	E616-E624
Journal	Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Volume	62
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000002008
State	Published - Nov 1 2020

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Kraus, A., Awoniyi, O., Almalki, Y., Bardeesi, A. S. A., Edwards, B., Alhajjaj, F., Alossaimi, B., Benham, T., Bortolin, M., Cattamanchi, S., Court, M., Groves, J., Hernandez, A., Issa, F., MacGregor-Skinner, G., Manners, P., Molloy, M., Romney, D., Voskanyan, A., ... Ciottone, G. (2020). Practical Solutions for Healthcare Worker Protection During the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in the Ambulatory, Emergency, and Inpatient Settings. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 62(11), E616-E624. https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000002008

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Practical Solutions for Healthcare Worker Protection During the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in the Ambulatory, Emergency, and Inpatient Settings. / Kraus, Anthony; Awoniyi, Oluwafunbi; Almalki, Yousef et al.
In: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 62, No. 11, 01.11.2020, p. E616-E624.

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Practical Solutions for Healthcare Worker Protection During the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in the Ambulatory, Emergency, and Inpatient Settings

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