Question

Now that PPE and hygiene are on the forefront of everyone’s minds we can have a Confession: Animal Medical Industry edition. In what ways have you seen short cuts? Can your practice (or a practice you know) get better at protecting its patients? In what ways do you think PPE and protocols differ from human to animal hospitals?

Answer 1

Animal Medical Industry edition. In what ways have you seen short cuts?

• hospital waiting period
• delay in appointments
• Hygienic conditions
• Treatment costs

Can your practice (or a practice you know) get better at protecting its patients?

Yes, by many ways.

• By recruitment of adequate Healthcare workers in the fecility
• By providing training and education for staff development
• By ensuring every staffs at the fecility hold a health and safety certificate

In what ways do you think PPE and protocols differ from human to animal hospitals?

The protocol differ in many ways like in hospital it is highly essential to have PPE kit while treating the patient because it helps to reduce the chances of exchange of diseases from both parties.

But in a veterinary hospital set-up, it protect the personnel who enter animal facilities to perform animal procedures can often come in contact with animal dander, hair, secretions, and excretions that may cause allergic respiratory and skin responses, or that may cause illness. These are highly contagious than the treatment of a human being.