Artificial intelligence (AI) use for personal protective equipment training, remediation, and education in health care.

Journal: American journal of infection control
Published Date: Mar 25, 2025

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a first-line transmission-based precaution for reducing the spread of nosocomial infections between health care workers (HCWs), patients, and staff. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted a problematic skill gap in effective PPE donning/doffing.

Authors

  • Veronica Preda
    Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Electronic address: veronica.preda@mq.edu.au.
  • Zehurn Ong
    Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  • Chandana Wijeweera
    Emergency Medicine and Rural Practice, Bairnsdale Regional Hospital, Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia.
  • Terence Carney
    Surgical XR, Innovation and Development Department, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  • Robyn Clay-Williams
    Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
  • Denuka Kankanamge
    Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  • Tamara Preda
    Department of Surgery, University of Notre Dame, St Vincent's Clinical School, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  • Ioannis Kopsidas
    Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Infection Control, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
  • Michael Keith Wilson
    Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Surgical XR, Innovation and Development Department, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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