Outpatient Surgery Magazine

Are You Ready for Ebola? - November 2014 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

Outpatient Surgery Magazine, providing current information on Surgical Services, Surgical Facility Administration, Outpatient Surgery News and Trends, OR Excellence and more.

Issue link: http://outpatientsurgery.uberflip.com/i/416112

Contents of this Issue

Navigation

Page 29 of 114

3 0 I n surgical facilities across the country, doc- tors and nurses are running drills to practice how to don and doff what they refer to as the Ebola spacesuit: double gloves (the first pair taped around the wrist), gowns impervi- ous to liquid and viral penetration, E B O L A V I R U S Are You Ready for Ebola? Are You Ready for Ebola? The outbreak of the deadly virus has sur- gical facilities on high alert. Dan O'Connor Editor-in-Chief and Kendal Gapinski Associate Editor AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young HEAD TO TOE A healthcare profes- sional removes her face shield during a demonstration of per- sonal protective equip- ment procedures at Toronto Western Hospital.

Articles in this issue

Archives of this issue

view archives of Outpatient Surgery Magazine - Are You Ready for Ebola? - November 2014 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine