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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.

• Reflections on interprofessional team-based clinical care in the ebola epidemic: The Nebraska Medicine experience

  Tags Ebola, Nursing, Patient Care, R-T&C, Staff Support, Staffing, Staffing Model, Training
  Creator: Schwedhelm, S., E. L. Beam, R. D. Morris and J. G. Sebastian
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-02-01
  Description: Team-based interprofessional care has become the gold standard for comprehensive and efficient health care.
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  Treatment of Ebola

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Mehta, A. K., G. M. Lyon and J. B. Varkey
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-04-23
  Description: To the Editor: We were struck by the similarity of transient vascular leak in Ebola virus disease (EVD), as reported by Lyon et al. (Dec. 18 issue),1 with that which occurs in dengue....

• Clinical Management of Patients with Ebola Virus Disease in High-Resource Settings

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Staffing, Staffing Model, Therapeutics
  Creator: Marshall Lyon, G., A. K. Mehta and B. S. Ribner
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-06-11
  Description: Like most viral illnesses in humans, supportive care of the patient is the mainstay of clinical care for patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD).
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  Clinical care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the United States

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Staffing, Staffing Model, Therapeutics
  Creator: Lyon, G. M., A. K. Mehta, J. B. Varkey, K. Brantly, L. Plyler, A. K. McElroy, C. S. Kraft, J. S. Towner, C. Spiropoulou, U. Stroher, T. M. Uyeki, B. S. Ribner and U. Emory Serious Communicable Diseases
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-12-18
  Description: West Africa is currently experiencing the largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in history.

• Caring for Patients With Ebola: A Challenge in Any Care FacilityEbola Containment Care

  Tags Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Kortepeter, M. G., P. W. Smith, A. Hewlett and T. J. Cieslak
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-02-06
  Description: The largest outbreak of Ebola virus continues unabated in West Africa. With the recent death of a patient with Ebola virus disease at a hospital in Dallas, Texas, and the sobering reality that nosocomial spread has occurred in a U.S. facility, U.S.…

• Clinical challenges in isolation care.

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Critical Care, Infection Prevention and Control, Nursing, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Beam, E., S. G. Gibbs, A. L. Hewlett, P. C. Iwen, S. L. Nuss and P. W. Smith
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-04-01
  Description: In 2014, the authors published the results of a study investigating nurses' use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the care of a live simulated patient requiring contact and airborne precautions. 

• Ebola's Legacy: Children with Cataracts

  Tags Ebola, Eye/Ocular Health, Follow up, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, Public Health, R-T&C, Survivors
  Creator: New York Times
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2017-10-19
  Description: Grady, Denise. 2017. "Ebola's Legacy: Children with Cataracts." New York Times [October 19, 2017].

• Ebola surgical protocols enhance safety of patients and personnel

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Occupational Health, Patient Care, Patient Transport, R-IPC, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Surgery
  Creator: Mathias, J. M.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-04-30
  Description: In the months since Ebola patients were first treated in US hospitals, much progress has been made in establishing protocols to protect patients and healthcare workers from harm.
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  Long-term Management of Panuveitis and Iris Heterochromia in an Ebola Survivor

  Tags Ebola, Example, Eye/Ocular Health, Follow up, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Specimen Collection, Survivors
  Creator: Shantha, J. G., I. Crozier, J. B. Varkey, C. S. Kraft, G. M. Lyon, 3rd, A. K. Mehta, R. D. Carlson, C. E. Hill, G. Kumar, M. R. Debiec, P. S. Patel, T. W. Olsen, R. B. Nussenblatt, D. F. Martin, U. Stroher, T. M. Uyeki, B. S. Ribner, J. R. Smith and…
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-12-01
  Description: The 2013-2016 West African Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak has been the largest in history with 28,616 cases and 11,310 deaths in the highest transmission countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia.

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