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  ISOPOD Basics: TVI Model

  Tags EMS, Example, Intake, Isopod, Patient Transport, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Portable Isolation Unit, Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-IIT, R-PPE, R-PreH
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine / Heroes
  Subject: Pre-Hospital
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2013-02-19
  Description: The Nebraska Biocontainment Unit Videos - National Ebola Training and Education Center (NETEC)

  Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.

• Study: Full-time N95 use offers best respiratory protection

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Droplet Transmission, Infection Prevention and Control, Mask, Masks, N95, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: CIDRAP
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2013-02-20
  Description: In a new study, Chinese hospital staffers who wore N95 respirators all the time enjoyed significantly lower rates of clinical respiratory illnesses (CRIs) than workers who wore surgical masks or used N95s only for high-risk procedures.
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  ISOPOD Basics: IRT Model

  Tags EMS, Example, Intake, Isopod, Patient Transport, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Portable Isolation Unit, Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-IIT, R-PPE, R-PreH
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine / Heroes
  Subject: Pre-Hospital
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2013-02-28
  Description: The Nebraska Biocontainment Unit Videos - National Ebola Training and Education Center (NETEC)

  Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.

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  ISOPOD Basics: Patient Care

  Tags EMS, Example, Intake, Isopod, Patient Care, Patient Transport, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Portable Isolation Unit, Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-IIT, R-PPE, R-PreH
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine / Heroes
  Subject: Pre-Hospital
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2013-03-06
  Description: The Nebraska Biocontainment Unit Videos - National Ebola Training and Education Center (NETEC)

  Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.

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  Availability, consistency and evidence-base of policies and guidelines on the use of mask and respirator to protect hospital health care workers: a global analysis

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Guidance Document, Mask, Masks, N95, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen, SARS
  Creator: Chughtai, Abrar Ahmad, Holly Seale, and Chandini Raina MacIntyre.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2013-05-31
  Description: Currently there is an ongoing debate and limited evidence on the use of masks and respirators for the prevention of respiratory infections in health care workers (HCWs).
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  Different types of door-opening motions as contributing factors to containment failures in hospital isolation rooms

  Tags Coronavirus, Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Occupational Exposure, Physical Infrastructure, R-PhIn, R-Res&Pub, SARS, Staff Support, Staffing
  Creator: Tang, Julian W., Andre Nicolle, Jovan Pantelic, Christian A. Klettner, Ruikun Su, Petri Kalliomaki, Pekka Saarinen, Hannu Koskela, Kari Reijula, Panu Mustakallio, David K. W. Cheong, Chandra Sekhar, and Kwok Wai Tham.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2013-06-24
  Description: Hospital isolation rooms are vital for the containment (when under negative pressure) of patients with, or the protection (when under positive pressure) of patients, from airborne infectious agents.
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  Tracing the SARS-coronavirus.

  Tags Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemiology, MERS-CoV, R-Res&Pub, SARS
  Creator: Chan PK, Chan MC.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2013-08
  Description: Four coronaviruses (HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43, HCoV-NL63, HCoV-HKU1) are endemic in humans and mainly associated with mild respiratory illnesses; whereas the other two coronaviruses [Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East…
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  Effectiveness of cough etiquette maneuvers in disrupting the chain of transmission of infectious respiratory diseases.

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Infection Prevention and Control, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen
  Creator: Zayas, Gustavo, Ming C. Chiang, Eric Wong, Fred MacDonald, Carlos F. Lange, Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan, and Malcolm King.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2013-09-08
  Description: The effectiveness of recommended measures, such as "cover your mouth when coughing", in disrupting the chain of transmission of infectious respiratory diseases (IRD) has been questioned.
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  Clinical management and infection control of SARS: lessons learned.

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Coronavirus, Infection Prevention and Control, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, SARS
  Creator: Cheng, Vincent C. C., Jasper F. W. Chan, Kelvin K. W. To, and K. Y. Yuen.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2013-11
  Description: The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 was the first emergence of an important human pathogen in the 21st century.

• Guidance on the use of respiratory and facial protection equipment.

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Guidance Document, Mask, Masks, N95, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen
  Creator: Coia, J. E., L. Ritchie, A. Adisesh, C. Makison Booth, C. Bradley, D. Bunyan, G. Carson, C. Fry, P. Hoffman, D. Jenkins, N. Phin, B. Taylor, J. S. Nguyen-Van-Tam, and M. Zuckerman.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2013-11
  Description: Infectious micro-organisms may be transmitted by a variety of routes, and some may be spread by more than one route.