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  Preparing for Serious Communicable Diseases in the United States: What the Ebola Virus Epidemic Has Taught Us

  Tags Antibodies, Contact Transmission, Critical Care, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Epidemic, Infection Prevention and Control, Outbreaks, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Prophylaxis, Public Health, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Varkey, J. B. and B. S. Ribner
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-06-01
  Description: Ending the West Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak required an unprecedented international response.

• How Specialty Certification Influences Professional Practice

  Tags Example, Nursing, R-PM, Training
  Creator: Vanairsdale, S.
  Subject: Personnel Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-03
  Description: Certified Nurses Day (March 19) honors nurses worldwide who contribute to better patient outcomes through board certification in their specialty.

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• Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, COVID-19, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen
  Creator: van Doremalen, Neeltje, Trenton Bushmaker, Dylan H. Morris, Myndi G. Holbrook, Amandine Gamble, Brandi N. Williamson, Azaibi Tamin, Jennifer L. Harcourt, Natalie J. Thornburg, Susan I. Gerber, James O. Lloyd-Smith, Emmie de Wit, and Vincent J.…
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-17
  Description: A novel human coronavirus that is now named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (formerly called HCoV-19) emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019 and is now causing a pandemic.

• Mediastinal lymphadenopathy in patients with severe COVID-19

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Comorbidity, Coronavirus, COVID-19, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Valette, Xavier, Damien du Cheyron, and Suzanne Goursaud.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-04-21
  Description: CT has a leading place in the management of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Mediastinal lymph node enlargement is not considered a typical CT feature of COVID-19, and only 6% of patients admitted to hospital for COVID-19 had…

• Renin–Angiotensin–Aldosterone System Inhibitors in Patients with Covid-19

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, R-Lab, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Vaduganathan, Muthiah, Orly Vardeny, Thomas Michel, John J. V. McMurray, Marc A. Pfeffer, and Scott D. Solomon.
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-04-23
  Description: The renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS) is an elegant cascade of vasoactive peptides that orchestrate key processes in human physiology.
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  Ebola Virus Persistence in Semen of Male Survivors

  Tags Ebola, Follow up, Laboratory Testing, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, Specimen Collection, Specimen Handling, Survivors, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Uyeki, T. M., B. R. Erickson, S. Brown, A. K. McElroy, D. Cannon, A. Gibbons, T. Sealy, M. H. Kainulainen, A. J. Schuh, C. S. Kraft, A. K. Mehta, G. M. Lyon, 3rd, J. B. Varkey, B. S. Ribner, R. T. Ellison, 3rd, E. Carmody, G. J. Nau, C. Spiropoulou,…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-06-15
  Description: We investigated the duration of Ebola virus (EBOV) RNA and infectious EBOV in semen specimens of 5 Ebola virus disease (EVD) survivors.

• Clinical management of Ebola virus disease in the United States and Europe

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Critical Care, Ebola, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Uyeki, T. M., A. K. Mehta, R. T. Davey Jr, A. M. Liddell, T. Wolf, P. Vetter, S. Schmiedel, T. Grünewald, M. Jacobs and J. R. Arribas
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-02-18
  Description: Available data on the characteristics of patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) and clini- cal management of EVD in settings outside West Africa, as well as the complications observed in those patients, are limited.

• Does triage to critical care during a pandemic necessarily result in more survivors?

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Utley, Martin, Christina Pagel, Mark J. Peters, Andy Petros, and Paula Lister.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2011-01
  Description: The 2009 H1N1 pandemic reinforced the need for a planned response to increased demand for critical care.

• Clinical Management of Patients with Ebola: The Nebraska Experience

  Tags Ebola, Isolation/Biocontainment, Patient Care, R-T&C
  Creator: University of Wisconsin (UW)
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2019-04-19
  Description: In this lecture Angela Hewlett, MD, MS presents a case study about caring for patients with Ebola Virus Disease at Nebraska Medical Center in 2014. Dr. Hewlett is an infectious disease specialist and associate medical director of the Nebraska…

• Patient Isolation and Transportation - ISO-POD Update: AirBoss Defense Advantage

  Tags Infection Prevention and Control, Isopod, Patient Transport, Portable Isolation Unit, Protocol, R-IIT, R-PreH, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine / Heroes
  Subject: Pre-Hospital
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2017-11-27
  Description: An ISOPOD is a device used in the transportation of a potentially infectious patient, either internally at a facility, or from one facility to another. In this video Brittany Nordby, RN, BSN, EMT, Project Coordinator for HEROES, provides an…