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Dr Benjamin R Makie
Army School of Health, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Australia.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7662-3357
Natalee Williams-Claasen
School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, CQ University, Australia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0662-5103
Petar Gojkovic
Army School of Health, Environmental Health Australia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1559-3246

Keywords

Ambulance, decontamination, emergency medical services, health care-associated infection, infection control, infection control procedures.

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Emergency responders play a vital role in the treatment of critically ill or injured patients, as they are often the first point of contact for the patient in the healthcare setting. Emergency medical services also play a vital role in the prevention and control of the transmission of communicable diseases and ensuring best practice infection control is enacted. Lindsley et al. (2018) recently examined the efficacy and impact of an ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) system to disinfect the interior of an ambulance. A critique of this article is presented in the following.


 

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Oct 6, 2020
DOI https://doi.org/10.33553/jhtam.v2i1.28

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020): Journal of High Threat & Austere Medicine
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