Browse Items (1475 total)

• Pooling of samples for testing for SARS-CoV-2 in asymptomatic people

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Lab, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, R-Lab, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Lohse, Stefan, Thorsten Pfuhl, Barbara Berkó-Göttel, Jürgen Rissland, Tobias Geißler, Barbara Gärtner, Sören L. Becker, Sophie Schneitler, and Sigrun Smola.
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-04-28
  Description: The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a substantial challenge for health-care systems and their infrastructure.Responses to this article have been published: Mishra, Baijayantimala, Bijayini Behera, Monalisa Mohanty, Akshatha…
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  Polio Resurgence: Guidance for Health Care Workers

  Tags Diagnosis, Droplet Transmission, Laboratory Testing, Polio, R-T&C, Survivors, Vaccines
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2023-02-06
  Description: This NETEC blog post discusses Poliovirus transmission and pathogenesis, Paralytic Polio, Polio survivors and Post-Polio Syndrome (PPS), Polio vaccines and recommendations, and Polio testing in the laboratory.
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  POLICY-Guidelines for Nurses On-Call in the SCDU (####)

  Tags Occupational Health, R-Lead, R-PM, Staffing, Staffing Model
  Creator: Emory
  Subject: Personnel Management
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2018-02-12
  Description: Resources - National Ebola Training and Education Center - Emory Protocols
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  POLICY-Discharge Criteria for Patients in the Serious Communicable Diseases Unit (####)

  Tags Discharge, R-IIT, R-Lead, Survivors
  Creator: Emory
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2018-02-12
  Description: Resources - National Ebola Training and Education Center - Emory Protocols
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  POLICY-Activation Compensation Program in the SCDU (####)

  Tags Activation, R-Lead, R-PM, Staff Rotations, Staffing, Staffing Model
  Creator: Emory
  Subject: Personnel Management
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2018-02-12
  Description: Resources - National Ebola Training and Education Center - Emory Protocols
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  Planning Guidance for Handling Category A Solid Waste: Managing Solid Waste Contaminated with a Category A Infectious Substance

  Tags Category A, R-WM, Special Pathogens, Waste Management
  Creator: U.S. Department of Transportation
  Subject: Waste Management
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2024-04-01
  Description: What this is for: This Guidance is for safe handling of solid waste contaminated with a Category A infectious substance (henceforth, “contaminated waste”) and the proper management of inactivated Category A waste materials in the United States.* An…

• Planning and response to Ebola virus disease: An integrated approach

  Tags Ebola, Emergency Management, EMS, Exercises and Drills, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-Lead, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Staffing, Staffing Model, Training, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Smith, P. W., K. C. Boulter, A. L. Hewlett, C. J. Kratochvil, E. J. Beam, S. G. Gibbs, J. M. Lowe and M. M. Schwedhelm
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-05-01
  Description: The care of patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) requires the application of critical care medicine principles under conditions of stringent infection control precautions.

• Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Droplet Transmission, Mask, Masks, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Chu, Derek K., Elie A. Akl, Stephanie Duda, Karla Solo, Sally Yaacoub, Holger J. Schünemann, Derek K. Chu, Elie A. Akl, Amena El-harakeh, Antonio Bognanni, Tamara Lotfi, Mark Loeb, Anisa Hajizadeh, Anna Bak, Ariel Izcovich, Carlos A. Cuello-Garcia,…
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-06-01
  Description: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes COVID-19 and is spread person-to-person through close contact. We aimed to investigate the effects of physical distance, face masks, and eye protection on virus transmission in…

• Phase 1–2 Trial of a SARS-CoV-2 Recombinant Spike Protein Nanoparticle Vaccine

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, R-Res&Pub, Vaccine Study
  Creator: Keech, Cheryl, Gary Albert, Iksung Cho, Andreana Robertson, Patricia Reed, Susan Neal, Joyce S. Plested, Mingzhu Zhu, Shane Cloney-Clark, Haixia Zhou, Gale Smith, Nita Patel, Matthew B. Frieman, Robert E. Haupt, James Logue, Marisa McGrath, Stuart…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-12-10
  Description: NVX-CoV2373 is a recombinant severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (rSARS-CoV-2) nanoparticle vaccine composed of trimeric full-length SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoproteins and Matrix-M1 adjuvant.
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  Perspectives on the Management of Children in a Biocontainment Unit: Report of the NETEC Pediatric Workgroup

  Tags Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Pediatrics, R-Res&Pub, R-SP
  Creator: Theodore J. Cieslak, Laura Evans, Mark G. Kortepeter, Amanda Grindle, Lemuel Aigbivbalu, Kate Boulter, Ryan W. Carroll, Sylvia Cumplido, Alison G. Danforth, Cecilia Fry, James Gaensbauer, Janet R. Hume, Amyna Husain, Arlene Kelleher, Christopher J.…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-02-19
  Description: During the outbreak of Ebola virus disease that struck West Africa during 2014-2016, a small handful of expatriate patients were evacuated to specialized high-level containment care units, or biocontainment units, in the United States and Western…