#FreshAirNHS Campaigning to educate that #COVIDisAirborne #Ventilation and airborne protections in healthcare Icon: Luis Prado, Loren Klein CC-BY
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Our letter to ask senior decision makers to improve ventilation and allow healthcare workers to use airborne precautions when caring for patients with COVID-19:
#FreshAirNHS #COVIDisAirborne
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A clarification from @NIHRresearch on the WIPPET trial.
H/T @EvonneTCurran
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Thank you to everyone who has written to the NIHR about the flawed WIPPET study asking for £1.1million to see if healthcare workers really need respiratory protection.
If you haven't written, please read our concerns:
freshairnhs.com/2022/02/04/w…
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A study is planned into whether healthcare workers really need respiratory protection against diseases like COVID-19.
They've asked NIHR for £1.1million.
We have significant concerns & would urge you to write to NIHR if you share them.
Our draft letter: freshairnhs.com/2022/02/04/w…
FreshAirNHS are pleased to see that after a lengthy worldwide campaign, the benefits of airborne protection have finally been accepted at the highest levels.
Well done @WHO !
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If you are using FFP3 with COVID-19 patients outside "AGP" areas in your trust, please contact @mjb302 or myself so we can get an accurate picture of current IPC practices.
#FreshAirNHS
Call to NHS trusts to clarify current position on IPC for Covid-19.
If you are listed below you have been highlighted to @FreshAirNHS as utilizing FFP3 beyond AGPs for patients with either suspected or proven Covid-19.
If this is not the case please DM me.
@CUH_NHS @NHSHarlow
Fresh air is not just important in hospitals - workplaces and especially schools can take these simple measures to help limit spread of the virus causing Covid-19.
Think smoke, and act accordingly.
#FreshAirNHS #COVIDisAirborne
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Letter sent by @TheBMA to every NHS England CEO.
COVID-19 risk to healthcare workers in the NHS *can* be reduced, and exemplar Trusts have led the way with FFP3 use.
Current guidance requires a risk assessment before deciding whether to use lesser protection.
#COVIDisAirborne - and at #FreshAirNHS we have been asking for airborne mitigations in healthcare settings.
Our response to new data now out from Cambridge, on the effectiveness of FFP3 for NHS staff protection:
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Does this align with your observations? Comments warmly received @RCPath @biainfection @IPS_Infection @HIS_infection
theguardian.com/world/2021/f… Coughing generates x10 aerosols as breathing/talking - patients free to cough on normal wards. CPAP on ITU attenuates aerosols. ITU has lower corona rates. Staff sickness: normal wards >> ITU. ITU staff use PPE to control for aerosols.
theguardian.com/world/2021/f… Coughing generates x10 aerosols as breathing/talking - patients free to cough on normal wards. CPAP on ITU attenuates aerosols. ITU has lower corona rates. Staff sickness: normal wards >> ITU. ITU staff use PPE to control for aerosols.
In the spirit of understanding UK PPE guidelines there have been repeated attempts to engage with policymakers.
Their replies have not been helpful.
We call upon UK CMOs to issue the rationale for the current denial of FFP3 for COVID19-facing healthcare workers.
#FreshAirNHS
A common theme in messages we receive at #FreshAirNHS is a feeling that they're the only one who knows that #COVIDisAirborne and has concerns over #ventilation and PPE.
But no more! A growing mass of passionate healthcare workers are singing their hearts out about this!
Instructions here:
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And full lyrics:
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Then Dr Fresh Air himself @hughes_eilir joined the fray:
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And @MarkGregsonPara showed it's not just mad doctors.
Who's up next?
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