Equipment and Supplies

EMS practitioners may encounter a patient with an infectious disease or respond to a pandemic during their career. The resources below have been posted to help EMS practitioners protect themselves and their patients against infectious disease and further spread.

Category	Title	Description
PPE	IAFC Fire & EMS Force Protection PPE Needs Dashboard	Dashboard displaying the results of the IAFC Fire & EMS Force Protection PPE Needs Survey.
PPE	Reusable Personal Protective Equipment	ASPR and FEMA-published fact sheet on reusable personal protective equipment (PPE), providing suggestions for cost-effective preservation of PPE.
PPE	Filtering Facepiece Respirators with an Exhalation Value: Measurements of Filtration Efficiency to Evaluate Their Potential for the Source Control	The technical report summarizes research undertaken by the National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL) to provide improved science-based recommendations on the use of filtering facepieces respirators (FFRs) with an exhalation valve.
PPE	Decontamination and Reuse of Filtering Facepiece Respirators (FFRs)	CDC guidance on disposable filtering facepiece respirators decontamination and reuse as standard of care.