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. 2015 Mar 1;60(5):823-5.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciu978. Epub 2014 Dec 15.

Traffic control bundling is essential for protecting healthcare workers and controlling the 2014 Ebola epidemic

Muh-Yong Yen  1 , Jonathan Schwartz  2 , Po-Ren Hsueh  3 , Allen Wen-Hsian Chiu  4 , Donald Armstrong  5
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Traffic control bundling is essential for protecting healthcare workers and controlling the 2014 Ebola epidemic

Muh-Yong Yen et al. Clin Infect Dis. .
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Figure 1.
Conceptual scheme of traffic control bundling. Following triage outside the hospital entrance, all the way until being hospitalized in the isolation room, the patients remained contained inside a zone of risk (red arrow), which is distinguished from “clean zones” through the “intermediate zone.” Dispensers with 75% alcohol for gloves-on hand sanitation are installed at checkpoints positioned in between zones of risk. Healthcare workers (HCWs) in a clean zone are required to don personal protective equipment (PPE) before entering the zones of risk. When departing a zone of risk, but prior to entering a clean zone, HCWs are required to undergo decontamination and remove PPE in an intermediate zone. Here HCWs disinfect their hands, gloved or not, between every single step of the decontamination process and removal of PPE to avoid casual contact of skin/mucosa with the virus.
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