COVID-19
Hierarchy of Controls: how to keep yourself and others safe from COVID-19
The Infection Prevention Society is pleased to have collaborated with NHS England and NHS Improvement in developing this educational video on managing the risk of COVID-19 in healthcare settings.
Hierarchy of Controls: how to keep yourself and others safe from COVID-19 - to access the video see: http://bit.ly/managingcovidriskPR
The aim of the video is to translate national infection prevention and control guidance into readily accessible information, enabling healthcare staff to understand and put into action the right measures to prevent transmission of COVID-19. The video is focused on the Hierarchy of Controls, including engineering, administrative and PPE controls, and how these need to be applied in healthcare settings to protect both staff and patients from COVID-19. It uses animation to convey the key principles underpinning the IPC guidance in a simple but informative way.
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Further Resources
Elsevier have made COVID-19 related articles freely available – click here to review
Collated information from academic publications and professional societies:
- Imperial College/MRC Centre Covid reports
- Inserm (the French National Institue for Health and Medical Research) produces a weekly literature review
- NEJM Journal Watch coronavirus research summary site
- Unversity of Birmingham Covid research summary - regularly updated
- Evaluation of antibody testing for SARS-CoV-2 from the UK National COVID Testing Scientific Advisory Panel
- Massachusetts General Hospital Covid treatment guidelines
- British Society of Haematology Covid guidelines including role of DIC score in predicting outcome and use of anticoagulation
- University of Minnestoa's Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Policy coronavirus resources (news and collated academic publications)
- Updated PHE guidance on infection control including expanded definition of AGPs and comment on CPR
- BSG statement on endoscopy giving their view that upper GI endoscopy, colonoscopy and ERCP should be considered AGP.
- TB care during the coronavirus epidemic and other specialty guides from NHS England
- British Geriatric Society resources regarding Covid
- NHS e-Library for health online coronavirus resources for training staff
- WHO online resources for coronavirus training
- NICE Covid guidelines including critical care and dialysis - more to follow
- Oxford Covid19 evidence service
- BTS guidance on acute NIV and coronavirus
- BHIVA advice on coronavirus for those with HIV
- Liverpool drug interactions database for experimental Covid treatment agents
- Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team modelling paper
- WHO clinical management guidance for suspected COVID-19
- The New England Journal of Medicine coronavirus collection
- The BMJ coronavirus resource centre
- Infection Prevention Society Covid-19 advice and guidance
- Global COVID-19 cases interactive maps
- British Thoracic Society Covid-19 information
- European Society of Intensive Care Medicine resources (including webinars with clinicians with Covid-19 experience)
- UK Intesive Care Society coronavirus resources
- Royal College of Radiologists view on the use of CT
- Royal College of O&G guidance on COVID-19 and pregnancy
- HSE statement on the use of pneumatic tube systems for samples
- British Society of Gastroenterology including statement on endoscopy and immunocompromised patients
- European Society of Cardiology position statement on the use of ACEI and ARBs during the Covid-19 outbreak
- UK Renal Association UK position statement on Covid-19 and ACEI/ARB use
- The British Society of Thoracic Imaging coronavirus collection - for both contributing and reviewing
- Pharmacotherapy for coronavirus from the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology/British Pharmacological Society
- UK joint letter supporting doctors working in the event of a Covid-19 epidemic
Guidance is being regularly updated by the UK nation’s public health bodies and is available on the links below: