Collection Resources

• Online Audiocasts From the SHEA/CDC ORTP (Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Outbreak Response Training Program) Regional Training Workshop

  Tags Behavioral Health, Biosafety, Clinical Care Guidelines, Communications, CONOPS, Diagnosis, Ebola, Emergency Management, Epidemic, Exercises and Drills, MERS-CoV, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Preparedness, Public Health, R-T&E, Special Pathogens, Therapeutics, Training, Treatment and Care, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Subject: General
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2023-10-18
  Description: These audiocasts, recorded at the SHEA/CDC ORTP Regional Training Workshop, discuss successes and failures of past infectious disease outbreaks and offer insights into the key steps involved in preparing your facility for the next high-consequence…

• Products Approved for Other Bioterrorism Emergencies

  Tags Ebola, Experimental Drugs, MERS-CoV, Orthopox Virus, Plague, Prophylaxis, R-T&C, Respiratory Pathogen, Smallpox, Special Pathogens, Therapeutics, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2017-09-08
  Description: This site lists products for Botulism due to Clostridium botulinum toxin; Ebola Virus Disease (EVD); Glanders and Melioidosis due to Burkholderia mallei and B. pseudomallei, respectively; Plague due to Yersinia pestis; Smallpox due to Variola major…

• Enacting high reliability principles while caring for people with Ebola Virus Disease

  Tags Fitness for Duty, Infection Prevention and Control, Nursing, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Personnel Management, R-PM, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Site Managers, Staff Retention, Staff Rotation Schedules, Staff Support, Staffing, Staffing Model, Trained Observer, Treatment and Care, Waste
  Creator: Jennings B. M., Yeager K. A., Feistritzer N. R., Gullatte M. M., Martyn K. K.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-05-18
  Description: Fear surrounds Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) because it is highly infectious. Yet members of the Serious Communicable Diseases Unit (SCDU) at Emory University Hospital (EUH) had to overcome that fear when caring for patients with EVD.

• Public Health Resilience Checklist for High-Consequence Infectious Diseases-Informed by the Domestic Ebola Response in the United States

  Tags Checklist, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Sell, T. K., M. P. Shearer, D. Meyer, H. Chandler, M. Schoch-Spana, E. Thomas, D. A. Rose, E. G. Carbone and E. Toner.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-03-27
  Description: The experiences of communities that responded to confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease in the United States provide a rare opportunity for collective learning to improve resilience to future high-consequence infectious disease events.
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  PPE 201

  Tags Donning and Doffing, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-T&E
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018
  Description: Past in Person Course Presentation - Identify and select the PPE components needed in the care and management of wet patients with potentially hazardous and communicable diseases such as Ebola and other special pathogens. Develop SOP for wet PPE…

• Leadership: Mitigation, Preparation, Response, and Recovery

  Tags R-PPE, Staff Support, Staffing, Staffing Model
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018
  Description: Past in Person Course Presentation - Determine methods and tools to consider when developing staffing models. Identify training and competency tools and demonstrate how to apply them to sustain readiness. Define fun and interactive strategies to…

• Laboratory Considerations for Ebola Virus and other Special Pathogens

  Tags Identify, Isolate, Lab, Laboratory, Person Under Investigation (PUI), R-Lab
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018
  Description: Past in Person Course Presentation. Objectives:Pertaining to the care of a PUI or patient infected with a high-risk pathogen. Describe components of a biological risk assessment. Identify critical elements to collect, package, and ship a diagnostic…
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  PPE Training the Trainer

  Tags Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-T&E, Staff Support, Staffing
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2017
  Description: Past In Person Course Presentation.Objectives: Review key concepts of personal protective equipment (PPE). Clarify competency: Theory, Practice and Use. Discuss strategies for developing PPE courses. Discuss ways of maintaining ongoing PPE…
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  Person Under Investigation Case Studies

  Tags Identify, Isolate, Person Under Investigation (PUI), R-Lead, R-T&E
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2017
  Description: Past In Person Course Presentation: Session Outline: Go over case presentation of potential PUIs. Work through discussion questions in small groups and share thoughts with the larger group. Your group may come up with additional questions for…
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  Pathogen Specific Strategies

  Tags Identify, Inform, Isolate, Person Under Investigation (PUI), R-T&E, Special Pathogens
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2023-11-02
  Description: Past In Person Course Presentation. After completion of this session, participants will be able to: Describe strategies for screening patients to identify highly infectious diseases. Differentiate various administrative, environmental and physical…