PPE for Ebola and Other Hazards: Protecting Healthcare Workers

This video training provides a deep look into the types of personal protective equipment health care workers and first responders should know and understand to keep themselves safe when dealing with patients with infectious illnesses, such as the Ebola virus.

The training discusses the types of respirators and their uses and limitations. It also provides detailed information about protective gloving, classes of protective ensembles and proper fitting of PPE garments. Correct donning methods, pre-entry assessment of protective ensembles, problems that often accompany PPE is discussed. Viewers learn about decontamination of PPE, proper doffing methods and post-entry assessment and decontamination processes.

Health care workers must understand how to use PPE, and what PPE to use, to protect themselves from Ebola and other health hazards while working with contaminated patients or in contaminated areas. This video provides a good overview of the protective equipment and the risks associated with working around highly-contagious patients.

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Health Care Workers, EMS and EMT, HAZMAT teams and first responders

• Introduction
• Routes of Exposure
• Different Types of Respirators: SCBA, SAR and APR
• Approved SBRN Respirators
• Types of Protective Clothing and Gloves
• Different Levels and Classes of Protective Ensembles
• Pre-Entry Assessment of Protective Ensembles
• Procedure for Donning PPE
• Problems while wearing PPE
• Decontamination and Doffing PPE
• Post-Entry Assessment and Decontamination of Equipment
• Conclusion