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  Considerations for safe EMS transport of patients infected with Ebola virus

  Tags Ebola, EMS, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Transport, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Lowe, J. J., K. C. Jelden, P. J. Schenarts, L. E. Rupp, K. J. Hawes, B. M. Tysor, R. G. Swansiger, S. S. Schwedhelm, P. W. Smith and S. G. Gibbs
  Subject: Pre-Hospital
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-06-01
  Description: The Nebraska Biocontainment Unit through the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, recently received patients with confirmed Ebola virus from West Africa.
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  Persistence of Ebola Virus in Ocular Fluid during Convalescence

  Tags Ebola, Eye/Ocular Health, Follow up, Infection Prevention and Control, Laboratory Testing, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Specimen Collection, Specimen Handling, Survivors
  Creator: Varkey, J. B., J. G. Shantha, I. Crozier, C. S. Kraft, G. M. Lyon, A. K. Mehta, G. Kumar, J. R. Smith, M. H. Kainulainen, S. Whitmer, U. Stroher, T. M. Uyeki, B. S. Ribner and S. Yeh
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-06-18
  Description: Among the survivors of Ebola virus disease (EVD), complications that include uveitis can develop during convalescence, although the incidence and pathogenesis of EVD-associated uveitis are unknown.This article was corrected in volume 372 on page…

• Prise en charge clinique des infections respiratoires aiguës sévères lorsqu’une infection par le coronavirus du syndrome respiratoire du Moyen-Orient (MERS-CoV) est soupçonnée - Lignes directrices provisoires

  Tags Coronavirus, MERS-CoV, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen, Zoonotic
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Contenu Français
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-07
  Description: Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection when Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection is suspected - Interim guidance - in French.

• Environmental infection control considerations for Ebola

  Tags Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Physical Infrastructure, R-IPC
  Creator: Lowe, J. J., P. L. Olinger, S. G. Gibbs, K. Rengarajan, E. L. Beam, K. C. Boulter, M. M. Schwedhelm, A. K. Hayes, C. J. Kratochvil, S. Vanairsdale, B. Frislie, J. Lewis, A. L. Hewlett, P. W. Smith, B. Gartland and B. S. Ribner
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-07-01
  Description: The growing Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, coupled with the transport of patients to the United States for treatment and the first US Ebola case identified September 30, 2014, in Texas, have driven hospitals throughout the United States to be…

• Ebola virus disease and accredited specialist health institutions/Maladie à virus Ebola et établissement de santé référent habilité

  Tags CDC, Ebola, Emergency Management, Epidemiology, Français, French, Infection Prevention and Control, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Rivière AM, Feuillette C, Moreau N, Damème F, Rapp C.
  Subject: Contenu Français
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-07-01
  Description: Ebola virus disease (EVD) went in the space of a few months from being a forgotten tropical disease to a global "health emergency".
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  Characteristics and Clinical Management of a Cluster of 3 Patients With Ebola Virus Disease, Including the First Domestically Acquired Cases in the United States

  Tags Critical Care, Diagnosis, Ebola, Example, Immunology, Occupational Exposure, Occupational Health, Patient Care, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Liddell, A. M., R. T. Davey, Jr., A. K. Mehta, J. B. Varkey, C. S. Kraft, G. K. Tseggay, O. Badidi, A. C. Faust, K. V. Brown, A. F. Suffredini, K. Barrett, M. J. Wolcott, V. C. Marconi, G. M. Lyon, 3rd, G. L. Weinstein, K. Weinmeister, S. Sutton, M.…
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-07-21
  Description: More than 26,000 cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) have been reported in western Africa, with high mortality. Several patients have been medically evacuated to hospitals in the United States and Europe.

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  Ebola Virus Disease: Experience and Decision Making for the First Patients outside of Africa

  Tags CONOPS, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Intake, Pre-hospital Transport, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Region 4, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Stephens, D. S., B. S. Ribner, B. D. Gartland, N. R. Feistritzer, M. M. Farley, C. P. Larsen and J. T. Fox
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-07-28
  Description: David Stephens and colleagues describe their experience of treating patients with Ebola virus disease at Emory University in the United States.
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  Pre-hospital transportation in Western countries for Ebola patients, comparison of guidelines.

  Tags Ebola, EMS, Ground Transport, Guidance Document, Patient Transport, Pre-Hospital, Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, R-Res&Pub, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Coignard-Biehler, H., A. Isakov, and J. Stephenson
  Subject: Pre-hospital
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-08
  Description: Although the epidemic is largely confined to West Africa, most Western countries where there is a possible risk of imported EVD have developed guidelines and procedures for the transport of confirmed or suspected cases of EVD. Specific…
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  Ebola virus disease: preparedness and infection control lessons learned from two biocontainment units

  Tags Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolation/Biocontainment, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-T&E, Training
  Creator: Hewlett, A. L., J. B. Varkey, P. W. Smith and B. S. Ribner
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-08-01
  Description: This review details infection control issues encountered in the management of patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD), with emphasis on how these issues were confronted in two biocontainment patient care units in the United States.
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  PPE Calculator for Hospitals

  Tags Donning and Doffing, Leadership Toolbox, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Preparedness Tools, R-PPE
  
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2015-08-01
  Description: Leadership Toolbox, Preparedness: Tool to Estimate Hospital Ebola PPE Needs