CDC releases revised Ebola gear guidelines

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By MIKE STOBBE and EMILY SCHMALL

ATLANTA (AP) — Federal officials are going on the road with new guidelines to promote head-to-toe protection for health workers treating Ebola patients.

Officials on Monday night released the advice, which health workers had pushed hard for after two Dallas nurses became infected while caring for the first person diagnosed with the virus in the United States.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials will be demonstrating the recommended techniques Tuesday at a massive training at New York City's Javits Center, with an expected attendance of thousands.

The president of a group representing 3 million registered nurses said she's glad to finally see better federal advice. Health care workers said the CDC's old guidance was confusing and inadequate, and left them fearfully unprepared for how to deal with an Ebola patient.

FULL story at link.



A sign's wording is changed in front of L.L. Hotchkiss School Monday, Oct. 20, 2014, in Dallas. Some elementary school students on the the Ebola isolations list have returned to the school after completing a 21-day period of monitoring. (AP Photo/LM Otero)


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[Warpy]

1. Good. MSF and other organizations have shown the way, nurses demanded better gear,

and the CDC finally listened. Maybe Pham and Vinson will be the first and last health care workers infected here.

[blackspade]

2. Better late than never...

[Yo_Mama]

3. Here they are

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/procedures-for-ppe.html

That would leave the major danger period on first medical contact if acutely ill, and for undetected/undetectable cases.

[Sunlei]

4. Good, because it's obvious the USAs state hospitals for the 2nd class, need Federal guidance

[Crunchy Frog]

5. It's about bloody time. n/t