personalprotectiveequipment

The last thing you want PPE to do is create more risk for incidents. That's why size and fit matter when selecting the right gear for the job.

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Healthcare workers have taken on a lot in the past year and a half. In this episode, Editor Sydny Shepard sits down with Dentec Safety's Claudio Dente to discuss how the pandemic led to a creation of superior respiratory protection.

Listen as our hosts discuss the intensity of the experiences of infection preventionists (IPs) during the first 9-months of the COVID-19 pandemic through input gleaned from IPs in rural, urban and suburban settings. These experiences serve to highlight the important role of IPs in pandemic preparedness, emergency management, and crisis standards of care.

Join Editor Sydny Shepard and Fastenal Safety Product Development Manager Makenzie Hoffman as they discuss personal protective equipment for women and why finding the right fit matters.

How are some hospitals conserving personal protective equipment? (Hint: In ways that would be unthinkable before the pandemic.) And who’s ultimately responsible for assuring sufficient PPE supplies? Code WACK! host Brenda Gazzar and Rose Roach, executive director of the Minnesota Nurses Association, compare the rules for PPE use before and after COVID-19.  Plus, if PPE is in such short stock, why are hospitals pushing to reinstate elective surgeries?

If you are planning on purchasing Personal Protective Equipment for reopening schools in the fall, now is the time to act. CASB's partnership with BuyBoard links you with PPE vendors and it's free to you as a CASB member. Learn more and activate your membership now!

Interview with Travis Maese, Assistant National Director for BuyBoard
Host: Leslie Bogar, CASB Director of Professional Learning

Music: Lee Rosevere

In this episode, you'll hear directly from Critical Care nurse leaders at Ohio State about a pilot developed to externalize IV pumps from COVID-19+ patient rooms in an effort to improve infection prevention and also conserve personal protective equipment (PPE). Listeners will learn more about this innovative pilot, how the change was implemented throughout the intensive care units, what obstacles the group faced, how they addressed them, and how clinical staff received the change in practice.

As the private and public sectors work together to address the first pandemic of modern times, Mike Alkire (@AlkirePremier), President of Premier, Inc. and Noam Levey (@NoamLevey), a journalist covering national healthcare policy with the Los Angeles Times, examine the increasingly important role of big data big data in healthcare, the transformation technology has enabled across the health ecosystem, and the opportunities to build on the momentum by addressing holistic factors impacting outcomes, costs and experiences. 

As the private and public sectors work together to address the first pandemic of modern times, Mike Alkire (@AlkirePremier), President of Premier, Inc. and Noam Levey (@NoamLevey), a journalist covering national healthcare policy with the Los Angeles Times, examine the increasingly important role of big data big data in healthcare, the transformation technology has enabled across the health ecosystem, and the opportunities to build on the momentum by addressing holistic factors impacting outcomes, costs and experiences. 

When her business activities came to a halt due to the constraints of social distancing, Michele Langseth of Vanilla Beans and Daydreams didn’t miss a beat in finding new ways to keep herself busy. She took her tools and experience and turned them toward manufacturing PPE for those in need.

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How can we maximize our ability to confront pandemics like the coronavirus? Which strategies are working for us, and which are failing? With host Brenda Gazzar, Dr. Philip Verhoef, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Hawaii and ICU physician, contrasts America’s failure to efficiently distribute resources like PPE with the successful adoption of telemedicine - an effort led by Medicare. Learn how a unified Medicare-for-All system could have helped the U.S. better respond to the pandemic.

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Mike works for Apex, the third largest freight forwarder in the world and number one forwarder transporting products from China. In 2019 they flew 500 charter flights, and have grown by $1 billion in 10 years!

Apex transports all types of products, from high tech, to retail, to ecommerce. They have charters that transport over 100,000 kilos and their planes can reach every corner of the planet. How have they adapted to the current crisis? Apex has been instrumental during the pandemic: they’ve offered space on aircrafts to government response teams, have transported PPE products to many countries and played a big role in protecting front line workers.

Do they have a secret to success? Mike says that Apex focuses on growth by adding talent that shares the same vision as them. From the words of their customers, this is what makes them a company that “always finds a way to get things done” and are able to find unique solutions to problems. Having invested in tech early on, Apex has been able to pivot more easily than other forwarders, giving them an even bigger competitive advantage. Although the future is unclear on how Covid will impact supply chain, Apex’s ambition is still to become the major freight forwarder across the globe.

In this episode we discuss:

• [0.42] Who is Apex?
• [10.40] 150 Million pieces of PPE and Counting!
• [15.00] Their secret to success
• [24.05] How Apex will be helping customers post-Covid
• [29.39] What’s next for Apex

Resources and links mentioned:

• Apex Global Logistics

Alan talks with Dr. Craig Harder about his recent news exposure! Craig has been printing reusable masks for health care professionals in his town in Washington and has had several great news stories written about his efforts! Craig tells us how he's printing them and how he's customizing them for nurses and doctors in his area! We talk about how to print a 3D mask as well as whether our existing universal precautions were enough. Infection control in dentistry has always been a huge deal and we wonder if people are going to criticize what we've been doing!

Some links from the show:

 Moses Lake Dentist uses time, materials to help other medical professionals

Moses Lake Dentist 3D Printing Reusable Masks for Healthcare Workers

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