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Creator: Fink, Sheri L.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2010
Description: Demand for critical care resources could vastly outstrip supply in an influenza pandemic or other health emergency, which has led expert groups to propose altered standards for triage and resource allocation. -
Creator: Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2017-06-01
Description: This Working Paper explores the topic of working with urban populations and communities. -
Creator: Lisa Casanova, Edie Alfano-Sobsey, William A. Rutala, David J. Weber, and Mark Sobsey.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2008-08
Description: We evaluated a personal protective equipment removal protocol designed to minimize wearer contamination with pathogens. -
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. -
Creator: Lindsley, William G., John D. Noti, Francoise M. Blachere, Robert E. Thewlis, Stephen B. Martin, Sreekumar Othumpangat, Bahar Noorbakhsh, William T. Goldsmith, Abhishek Vishnu, Jan E. Palmer, Karen E. Clark, and Donald H. Beezhold.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015
Description: Patients with influenza release aerosol particles containing the virus into their environment. -
Creator: Lindsley, William G., Francoise M. Blachere, Donald H. Beezhold, Robert E. Thewlis, Bahar Noorbakhsh, Sreekumar Othumpangat, William T. Goldsmith, Cynthia M. McMillen, Michael E. Andrew, Carmen N. Burrell, and John D. Noti.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2016-09
Description: To prepare for a possible influenza pandemic, a better understanding of the potential for the airborne transmission of influenza from person to person is needed. -
Creator: C. D. C. Prevention Epicenters Program (CDC)
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-10-01
Description: We observed 354 hand hygiene instances across 41 healthcare workers doffing personal protective equipment at 4 hospital-based biocontainment units. -
Creator: Johns Hopkins
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2017-02-01
Description: General Resources | Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Resources: In response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014, many hospitals designated specific areas to care for patients with Ebola and other highly infectious diseases. The safe handling of category A… -
Creator: Fisher, Edward M., John D. Noti, William G. Lindsley, Francoise M. Blachere, and Ronald E. Shaffer.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2014-08
Description: Facemasks are part of the hierarchy of interventions used to reduce the transmission of respiratory pathogens by providing a barrier. -
Creator: Fausther-Bovendo, Hugues, and Gary Kobinger.
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-11-17
Description: The 2013–16 Ebola virus outbreak—the largest ever recorded—substantially hastened the development of an Ebola virus vaccine. Before this outbreak, the safety and immunogenicity of only two Ebola virus vaccine candidates (a DNA-based vaccine and a…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.
