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Clinical Update | Double Gloves, Gowns, or Masks | March 4, 2021

Date of Presentation: March 4, 2021

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Virology  

Keywords: #covid clinical updates  #ppe  #racial bias  

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, provides a clinical update on SARS-CoV-2 mutations, racial bias in pulse ox, clinical presentation and treatment of COVID-19 and the latest vaccine updates. Then Matthew R. Ellis, Zeshan Chisty, and Erin R Whitehouse, discuss the use of double gloves, gowns, and masks and lessons learned from IHS/Tribal Tele-ICARs.

 

 

Recording:

Presented by:

Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Matthew R Ellis, Zeshan Chisty, Dr. Erin R Whitehouse

Jonathan Iralu, MD, FACP, is the Indian Health Service Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases. He has a special interest in HIV, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted disease care in rural communities. His research has focused on undifferentiated febrile illness in the American Southwest and on rural HIV care delivery. Dr. Iralu has worked at the Gallup Indian Medical Center since 1994 and is an instructor at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Global Health Equity in Boston, Massachusetts.

Matthew R. Ellis, MPH, CIC, REHS, serves the IHS ODIR, Office of Quality, Division of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management

Zeshan Chisty, MPH, is an Epidemiologist as part of the Consultation & Training Team, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the CDC/NCEZID/OID

Erin R Whitehouse, PhD, MPH, RN, is part of the Consultation & Training Team, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the CDC/NCEZID/OID

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Date added: March 4, 2021