[Jo Tallon]

Hi Sony,

Currently at Westmead Hospital we do have both Van A and Van B VRE patients and we do isolate them separately upon the advice of our ID specialists.

Cheers,

Jo

Jo Tallon

CNC/Co Manager Infection Prevention & Control Unit

Pager 09868

Phone 98459192

Mobile 0423 000 169

Fax 98459148

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Hello Sony, Even if that were the case, (and none of my ID specialists have said we should), we do not have the resources to separate the two types of patients.
Rita

CNC Infection Control | Hornsby & Ku-ring-gai Health Service
Palmerston Road,
Tel 02 9477 9232 | Pager 52533|
rroy@nsccahs.health.nsw.gov.au
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>>> Sony SO 17/08/2013 11:50 am >>>
Dear all,

I would like to know whether patients with VRE VAN A need to be seperated isolation with VRE VAN B case

Regards,

SONY SO
Nursing Officer Infection Control Team
KWONG WAH HOSPITAL
HONG KONG SAR CHINA
tel. 852-3517-2409

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[Jo Tallon]

Hi Julie,

Here at Westmead in our BMT unit we don the PPE in the anteroom and remove all (except for the mask) in the patient’s room, we also have shared anterooms between two single rooms.

Cheers,

Jo

Jo Tallon
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>>> Julie Hunt 4/29/2013 9:46 am >>>
Dear Colleagues,

There has been discussion with our Haematology and Infectious Diseases colleagues regarding where PPE is removed. It has been suggested in single rooms with an anteroom that the ante room should be kept ‘clean’ for donning PPE but that PPE should be removed inside the patient room (apart from mask if worn) before exiting to the anteroom (patients are generally isolated due to MROS, respiratory viruses or a combination).

Infection Prevention & Control recommend PPE be both donned & removed in the anteroom. It is worth noting that some of our anterooms are shared between two single rooms.

If it is a standard single room & the patient has an MRO we remove at the door, or outside the room if the patient has a respiratory virus.

The Australian Infection Control Guidelines, NSW Health Guidelines & CDC all state that PPE should be removed at the door or anteroom, it is my understanding that it is written this way to cover both single rooms with & without anterooms.

I am aware that during the SARS outbreak, Ontario Infection prevention & Control documents stipulated separate areas for donning & removing PPE (donning outside the anteroom & removing in the anteroom).

Lastly, the Australian Government training DVD for the Influenza Pandemic showed PPE being both donned & removed outside a single room http://www.flupandemic.gov.au/internet/panflu/publishing.nsf/Content/resources-1

I am interested in knowing how other healthcare facilities or haematology units manage this practice.

Regards

Julie

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