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  Example: Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Patient Handoff between a Healthcare Facility and a Transporting Ambulance

  Tags Intake, Pre-Hospital, Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: Pre-hospital
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2016-01-08
  Description: This resource was originally commissioned and published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.This document provides guidance to facilitate planning for and execution of patient handoff between personnel at a fixed facility (hospital…

• Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Diagnostics

  Tags Diagnosis, Ebola, Identify, Marburg, R-IIT, R-Lead, R-Res&Pub, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Racsa, L. D., C. S. Kraft, G. G. Olinger, and L. E. Hensley
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-01-15
  Description: There are 4 families of viruses that cause viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF), including Filoviridae. Ebola virus is one virus within the family Filoviridae and the cause of the current outbreak of VHF in West Africa.
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  Ebola or Not? Evaluating the Ill Traveler From Ebola-Affected Countries in West Africa.

  Tags Diagnosis, Ebola, Person Under Investigation (PUI), R-IIT, R-Lead, R-Res&Pub, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Fairley, J. K., P. E. Kozarsky, C. S. Kraft, J. Guarner, J. P. Steinberg, E. Anderson, J. T. Jacob, P. Meloy, D. Gillespie, T. R. Espinoza, A. Isakov, S. Vanairsdale, E. Baker and H. M. Wu
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-01-18
  Description: The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa had global impact beyond the primarily affected countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. 
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  Guidance for Developing a Plan for Interfacility Transport of Persons Under Investigation or Confirmed Patients with Ebola Virus Disease in the United States

  Tags EMS, Pre-Hospital, Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
  Creator: CDC, Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Department of Transportation
  Subject: Pre-hospital
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2016-01-26
  Description: Guidance that includes Patient Handoff SOP, Air-to-Ground Patient Handoff SOP, and Ambulance Decontamination
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  Example: Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Decontamination of an Ambulance that has Transported a Person under Investigation or Patient with Confirmed Ebola

  Tags Decontamination, Ebola, Ebola Decontamination, Infection Prevention and Control, Pre-Hospital, R-EMS, R-PreH, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: Pre-hospital
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2016-01-28
  Description: This resource was originally commissioned and published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.This SOP can serve as a model for emergency medical services (EMS) transport agencies to standardize the procedures and responsibilities for…
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  Example: Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Air-to-Ground (Air-Ground) Patient Handoff

  Tags EMS, Patient Transport, R-EMS
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: Emergency Medical Services
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2016-01-28
  Description: This resource was originally commissioned and published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.This document provides guidance to facilitate planning for and execution of patient handoff between an air ambulance agency and a ground…
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  Initial Costs of Ebola Treatment Centers in the United States

  Tags Ebola, Example, Isolation/Biocontainment, Physical Infrastructure, Public Health, R-PhIn, R-Res&Pub, Regional Treatment Center, State Treatment Center
  Creator: Herstein, J. J., P. D. Biddinger, C. S. Kraft, L. Saiman, S. G. Gibbs, P. W. Smith, A. L. Hewlett and J. J. Lowe
  Subject: Physical Infrastructure
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-02-01
  Description: To the Editor: The 2014–2015 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa was unprecedented in scale and scope. During the outbreak, 11 patients with EVD were cared for in the United States...

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  "Current status of drug treatment against the disease caused by the Ebola virus/Situación actual del tratamiento farmacológico
  frente a la enfermedad causada por el virus Ébola"

  Tags Ebola, Español, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub, Spanish, Therapeutics, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Reina J.
  Subject: Elementos en Español
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-02-01
  Description: The recent epidemic of disease caused by the Ebola virus has highlighted the need to develop specific drugs and have to deal with this entity.
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  Quantification of Influenza Virus RNA in Aerosols in Patient Rooms

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Occupational Exposure, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Leung, Nancy H. L., Jie Zhou, Daniel K. W. Chu, Han Yu, William G. Lindsley, Donald H. Beezhold, Hui-Ling Yen, Yuguo Li, Wing-Hong Seto, Joseph S. M. Peiris, and Benjamin J. Cowling.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-02-05
  Description: The potential for human influenza viruses to spread through fine particle aerosols remains controversial.

• 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.