Information for Healthcare Professionals: COVID-19 | CDC

Information for Healthcare Professionals: COVID-19 | CDC

Information for Healthcare Professionals

alert icon See CDC’s strategies for optimizing the use of eye protection, isolation gowns, facemasks, and N95 respirators.

Current Interim Guidance

• Interim Guidance for Public Health Personnel Evaluating Persons Under Investigation (PUIs) and Asymptomatic Close Contacts of Confirmed Cases at Their Home or Non-Home Residential Settings
• Interim Guidance for Collection and Submission of Postmortem Specimens from Deceased Persons Under Investigation (PUI) for COVID-19, February 2020
• Evaluating and Testing Persons for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• Healthcare Infection Control Guidance
• Ending Isolation for Immunocompromised Persons
• Clinical Care Guidance
• Home Care Guidance
• Guidance for EMS
• Healthcare Personnel with Potential Exposure Guidance
• Inpatient Obstetric Healthcare Guidance
• Interim Infection Prevention and Control Guidance for Dental Settings During the COVID-19 Response

Resources for Healthcare Professionals Caring for COVID-19 Patients

• What Healthcare Providers Should Know
• Frequently Asked Questions for Healthcare Providers
• Information for Healthcare Providers: COVID-19 and Pregnant Women
• COVID-19 and Underlying Medical Conditions

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Persons Under Investigation (PUI)

• Interim Guidance for Public Health Personnel Evaluating Persons Under Investigation (PUIs) and Asymptomatic Close Contacts of Confirmed Cases at Their Home or Non-Home Residential Settings
• Evaluating and Reporting PUI Guidance
• Reporting a PUI or Laboratory-Confirmed Case for COVID-19

Clinical Care

• Clinical Care Guidance
• Therapeutic Options for patients with COVID-19
• Disposition of Hospitalized Patients with COVID-2019
• Inpatient Obstetric Healthcare Guidance

Infection Control

• Guidance and Resources on Infection Control
• Blood and Plasma Collection
• Interim Infection Prevention and Control Guidance for Dental Settings During the COVID-19 Response

Supply of Personal Protective Equipment

• Guidance and Resources on Healthcare Supply of Personal Protective Equipment
• Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of PPE
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Burn Rate Calculator

Home Care

• Implementing Home Care of People Not Requiring Hospitalization
• Preventing COVID-19 from Spreading in Homes and Communities
• Disposition of Non-Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19

Webinar for Healthcare Professionals

Strategies for Healthcare Systems Preparedness and Optimizing N95 Supplies.

Find more information on supplies of personal protective equipment

View presentation slides pdf icon[29 pages]

Other Resources

• COVID-19 Publications
• Healthcare Preparedness Tools
• Health Alert Network (HAN): Update and Interim Guidance on Outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019

External Resources

• World Health Organization (WHO) Coronavirus  external icon
• WHO guidance on clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection when novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection is suspectedexternal icon
• Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings
• State health department after-hours contact listexternal icon
• Directory of Local Health Departmentsexternal icon (Contact your local or state health department immediately to report a Person Under Investigation (PUI) for COVID-19.)