Alternative Doffing Strategies to Prevent Healthcare Worker Self-Contamination When Using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

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Conditions studied: Personal Protective Equipment

In brief

Alternative doffing strategies may help prevent self-contamination of staff members when using PPE. The study aims to determine which among the suggested methods in the literature that have been proposed as alternatives to the traditional CDC recommended doffing protocol, would be most beneficial to reduce healthcare worker self-contamination.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03192553

Run by

Virginia Commonwealth University

People needed

51

Starts

2017-07-01

Expected to finish

2017-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2018-03-06

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Clinical Providers at VCU Medical Center, including medical degree holding trainees who are medical housestaff Adults > or =18 years of age

You may not qualify if…

• students pregnant or breastfeeding healthcare workers non-clinical providers children/teens <18 years of age open skin lesions or dermatitis presence of prosthetic materials such as prosthetic joints, heart valves

Where it is running

• Virginia Commonwealth University — Richmond, Virginia, United States

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