A nurse in Dallas who treated the first Ebola cases diagnosed in the United States were infected with virus, even if she herself she was wearing protective equipment. "At some point, there was a breach in the" protocol said Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), at a press conference this morning.
L the nurse, who said Frieden had "numerous contacts" with the patient wearing full personal protective equipment (PPE). the patient Thomas Eric Duncan Liberia, died on October 8. Frieden noted that Duncan had intubation respiratory and renal dialysis as "a desperate measure to try to save his life," he suggested may have been linked to the transmission. "both procedures can spread contaminated materials and procedures are considered to high risk, "he said.
Frieden said CDC "conduct a thorough investigation to understand how this could happen and we ramp up infection control to do what we can to minimize the risk that there would be future infections. "
The case presents similarities to that of an infected nurse in a Spanish hospital after taking care of a priest who had contracted the disease in Sierra Leone, and both raise questions about procedures training the hospital staff receive before they come into contact with Ebola patients. "There is a need to improve the training and protocol to ensure that the protocols are followed," Frieden said today, and although all US hospitals need to know how to diagnose infection with Ebola virus it may be safer to provide care in designated facilities that received more training, he said. "that's something we'll definitely consider."
it is not known exactly how the Dallas nurse was prepared to take care of Duncan. But the extreme care needed to treat Ebola virus is a new experience for most health care workers, and they need to practice much to learn proper procedures. the video below, provided by the CDC, gives an idea of how volunteers should help against Ebola in West Africa learn the heavy and clumsy process of wear and take off suits .
The sequence is one of the first of a series of training sessions on safety that the CDC remains at a former military base in Anniston, Alabama. Here is the schedule for the course and other details about it.
Doctors Without Borders, who led the clinical response to the current outbreak Ebola, leading to even training courses for health workers. The above video shows a course held recently in Brussels
* Ebola files :. Given the current Ebola outbreak unprecedented in terms of the number of people killed and the rapid geographic spread, Science and Science Translational Medicine made a collection of research articles and news on the viral disease available for researchers and the general public.
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