New isolation gowns, that academics say could be “safer, more comfortable and sustainable” than existing types, as well as potentially helping to protect nurses against Covid-19, are being developed ...

Isolation precautions are about "preventing ... that spreads among patients in hospitals and nursing homes. Staff members garb with gowns as well as gloves, Todd says, because organisms "might ...

From the initial batch of 500 washable face masks sewn by two of his workers last month, Odelon Simpao is making over 5,000 protective suits consisting of isolation gowns and hazmat suits.

Isolation gowns are worn by hospital workers to cover ... Chana Luria, who has worked as a nurse in California for about 30 years, said she has long preferred the washable gowns that were common ...

Paul Pater, an emergency room nurse at the University of Illinois ... He's a health care executive at Premier Inc. Isolation gowns, N95 masks and surgical masks are all made of the same raw ...

The nurse in Texas seemed ... She wore a mask, gown, shield and gloves. Her patient, a man who contracted the virus in Africa, was in isolation at the Dallas hospital where she worked.

and Providence Health Hospital reached out and requested 400 isolation gowns for nurses and doctors. Fleischer and her team of eight seamstresses got straight to work. They call themselves the Col ...

After months of near-isolation inside his senior ... still facing serious shortages of masks, gowns and other equipment. Adding to the risks, nursing home employees are continuing a long-running ...

Adams spent his days caring for COVID-19 patients while dressed in a plastic gown, wearing multiple ... in rooms that weren't prepped for isolation. Nurses had to revamp the rooms with the ...

But once they had it, the designer clothing company was suddenly in the "isolation gown" business too, making as many as 5,000 a week. "So we're getting orders from nursing homes, some other ...

EVERETT — Last year was a lonely one for intensive care unit nurse Sara Gering ... was fully dressed — donning two pairs of gloves, a gown and an air-purifying respirator hood — she departed ...