Inge Corless
About Inge Corless
Inge B. Corless, RN, PHD FAAN, is a Professor in the Graduate Program in Nursing at the MGH Institute of Health Professions at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She received her Diploma in Nursing from the Bellevue Schools of Nursing, a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from Boston University, an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Rhode Island and a Ph.D. from the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of California-San Francisco. Dr. Corless is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Corless joined the Institute faculty in 1993 after teaching at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, The University of Michigan, and Russell Sage College in Troy, New York. Dr. Corless also has served as the Program Director of St. Peter's Hospice in Albany New York during its' formative years. Prior to that she practiced as a staff nurse at Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital, and in the Emergency Ward at Bellevue Hospital both in New York. She has also served as a short-term consultant of WHO at the Western Pacific Regional Office in Manila. At the MGH Institute Dr. Corless has co-directed an HIV/AIDS track and has made courses available via a distance-learning format. Dr. Corless also teaches the Living with Death, Living with Grief course. A member of the UCSF HIV/AIDS nursing research network, Dr. Corless is also a member of the Partners-Fenway-Shattuck Center for AIDS research.
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Academic
Organization
- MGH Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing
Work Location(s)
- United States
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Inge Corless replied to "Repeated Usage of Mask Protection" in the TB Infection Control community.
Dear Ed, Thank you for your useful review and for getting back to me so quickly. My observations were of the reuse of surgical masks and I thought we could develop an approach to sampling the interior of the mask on a daily basis at the beginning and end of a nurse's shift and see what we can grow out and when. Given that these masks may be used for as long as a month ...
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Inge Corless replied to "Repeated Usage of Mask Protection" in the TB Infection Control community.
Dear Ed, Thinking about your comments I've done some further investigation on the NIOSH site and elsewhere. Although droplets are rapidly evaporating, some remain suspended in the air. Clearly infectiousness declines with treatment. In the early days of HIV/AIDS, the conventional wisdom was that HIV particles would not be viable on counters, etc. There was data that HIV survived on counters for three days and longer if the counters were wet. The situations of health ...
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Inge Corless replied to "Repeated Usage of Mask Protection" in the TB Infection Control community.
Dear Ed, You always give me more than enough food for thought. I appreciate the feast. I go back to the literature after every communication. I also think about what I observed in Durban, South Africa and Chennai, India. Providers wear masks, and in some cases surgical masks, but the evidence base for the latter according to WHO is inadequate. There seems to be considerable research on N95 respirators but less on surgical masks and ...
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Inge Corless replied to "Repeated Usage of Mask Protection" in the TB Infection Control community.
Dear Ed, I love the combination of science and your passion for providing the right resources. I checked with some colleagues in Uganda and they're using the respirators and appear to be doing so appropriately. I know I saw nurses with surgical masks In India and South Africa and was horrified at the inadequacy of the protection. Given the state of the science, research demonstrating yet again just how inadequate surgical masks are for protecting ...
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Inge Corless started a discussion "Repeated Usage of Mask Protection" in the TB Infection Control community.
Dear All, I have been following the discussions on the protection afforded by various types of masks. When I visited some MDR TB units in South Africa, I was given an N95 respirator which they promptly hung on a hook or placed in a desk drawer at the end of my visit. That struck me then as it does now that I was treated as a guest and provided with their safest equipment. I wondered ...
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