NETEC PPE Web App

Updated February 18, 2020

We have the following resources for use in your facility related to respitory pathogens, for use during PPE shortages. We will continue to update as often as we can as the situation changes, so be sure to refresh your browser. Please give us feedback here.

Guide My PPE Web Application

This NETEC web application is designed to give care providers much-needed guidance for donning and doffing PPE. We want our guidance to account for the realities of supply shortages and reuse, and allow providers to select the PPE they have available to them and get customized instructions.

The PPE Web app project began in March 2020 with two PDF's. NETEC subject matter experts and Emory University's Visual Medical Education (VME) team developed donning and doffing instructions for ACE and DICE level protection for providers. With the increased need of PPE Soon we were making multiple versions of those as PPE supply limitations were encountered and more variations of PPE were requested. We then made CAPR and PAPR instructions, gown extended wear instructions, double gloving, and we realized the combinations in this environment are endless.

We shared the initial PDF's with the rest of the world, and we were getting positive feedback from people in the US, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and thousands of page views from countries around the world. This small team's ability to create all the possible variations was limited. The app was born out of a desire to offer more options to health care providers than the static PDFs we were creating.

The NETEC team came together with SweetRush and Emory VME to develop a web app with 94 different combinations of PPE and links to relevant NETEC materials on PPE and infection control.

  • Outputs printable flyers that can be posted in the care setting
  • Illustrates steps for safely donning and doffing PPE
  • Offers user control over PPE selection
  • Provides options for REUSE and EXTENDED WEAR when supplies of PPE are low
  • Iteratively tested content by frontline providers
  • Professionally created visuals by medical illustrators
  • Adaptable to work on any modern mobile or desktop device
  • We will continue to add new content over time
  • Created by some of the world's leading experts in the control of special pathogens i

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