Infection Control and how it pertains to Ventilators
Thursday, 24 November 2011 15:07 | 
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Presented by Richard Kauc
Sponsored by Covidien & ACCES
In this webinar discussed the following:
- various ministry of health and respiratory guidelines
- why we need to filter patients exhaled breaths
- how filters work – what does N95, N99 or N100 mean?
- specific infection control issues to ventilators
- how we can protect ourselves at the bed side and when a vent is sent to biomed for service or PM’s.
This presentation educated the audience about the hazards that my be living inside a ventilator. In the age of SARS, and Drug Resistant TB we should all be treating ventilator that comes to the Biomed department as Biological Hazard just as a blood soaked pump.
| General Information | ||
| Webinar Name | Webinar ID | |
| Infection Control and how it pertains to Ventilators | 311388979 | |
| Actual Start Date & Time | Actual Duration (minutes) | |
| Nov 24, 2011 01:41 PM AST | 67 | |
| Registered (#) | Opened Invitation (#) | |
| 81 | 1 | |
| Clicked Registration Link (#) | Total Attendees (#) | |
| 112 | 55 | |