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Susan Adolph

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About Susan Adolph

Role(s) / Profession(s)

  • IC Professional, Technical Consultant, Preventionist (CTR/TSI)

Organization

  • Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières - MSF
    Website: http://www.msf.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: Switzerland About: Les Médecins Sans Frontières apportent leur secours aux populations en détresse, aux victimes de catastrophes d'origine naturelle ou humaine, de situation de belligérance, sans aucune discrimination de race, religion, philosophique ou politique. Oeuvrant dans la neutralité et en toute impartialité, les Médecins Sans Frontières revendiquent, au nom de l'éthique médicale universelle et du droit à l'assistance humanitaire, la liberté pleine et entière de l'exercice de leur fonction. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 70 countries. In countries where health structures are insufficient or even non-existant, MSF collaborates with authorities such as the Ministry of Health to provide assistance. MSF works in rehabilitation of hospitals and dispensaries, vaccination programmes and water and sanitation projects. MSF also works in remote health care centres, slum areas and provides training of local personnel. All this is done with the objective of rebuilding health structures to acceptable levels.

Work Location(s)

  • Uzbekistan

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    Susan Adolph started a discussion "Advantages of ceiling mounted upper UVGI fixtures versus wall mounted" in the TB Infection Control community.

    Hello All, I am wondering what the advantages and disadvantages of ceiling mounted upper room UVGI fixtures compared to wall mounted in rooms and corridors with a standard ceiling height of 2.8 meters. Also presume that the rooms are not unusually shaped (they are all either square or rectangular rooms). Thanks, Susan Adolph, RN ICO, MSF Uzbekistan/Tajikistan

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    Susan Adolph started a discussion "Ceiling fans for use with UVGI - how slow is slow?" in the TB Infection Control community.

    Hello all, I have a question about the use of ceiling fans in conjunction with upper room UVGI. I am aware of the effectiveness of air mixing and would like to include mixing fans in our implementation stratedgy for UVGI. We will be installing fixtures in both IPDs and ambulatory locations. I would prefer a ceiling fans to wall or floor mixing fans for the sake of easier administrative control and comfort. However, I am ...

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    Susan Adolph started a discussion "Paediatric TB IC plans" in the TB Infection Control community.

    Hello all, Does anyone have any examples of a paediatric TB IC plan? At the moment I am consulting for 2 paediatric locations. The first is a sensitive paediatric TB hospital including diagnostic and laboratory areas (smear and gene expert, no culturing) and the 2nd is an adult facility in which we have one area for paediatrics MDR cases. Although the majority of the plan will be similar to that of adults I expect there ...

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    Susan Adolph started a discussion "Risk Assessment Scoring Tools and TB IC Program indicators" in the TB Infection Control community.

    Hello All, I am looking for 2 things. First: TB IC risk assessments, both programatic and facility levels, that use a scoring system. I am familiar with several risk assessment tools, but none of them use a scoring system. Second: is there some kind of compendium of indicators available for TB IC programs? We have indicators that have been set for our program but I find them difficult or unrealistic to measure. For example "pecentage ...

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    Susan Adolph replied to "Risk Assessment Scoring Tools and TB IC Program indicators" in the TB Infection Control community.

    Thank you all for your replies and assistance. Susan Adolph, RN ICO MSF Uzbekistan/Tajikistan

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