Browse Items (419 total)

• Interferon Beta-1b and Lopinavir–Ritonavir for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

  Tags Laboratory Testing, MERS-CoV, R-Lab, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Arabi, Yaseen M., Ayed Y. Asiri, Abdullah M. Assiri, Hanan H. Balkhy, Ali Al Bshabshe, Majed Al Jeraisy, Yasser Mandourah, Mohamed H. A. Azzam, Abdulhadi M. Bin Eshaq, Sameera Al Johani, Shmeylan Al Harbi, Hani A. A. Jokhdar, Ahmad M. Deeb, Ziad A.…
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-10-07
  Description: Whether combined treatment with recombinant interferon beta-1b and lopinavir–ritonavir reduces mortality among patients hospitalized with Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is unclear.
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  EMS Infectious Disease Playbook

  Tags Airborne Transmission, CONOPS, Contact Transmission, Donning and Doffing, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Emergency Management, EMS, Infection Prevention and Control, MERS-CoV, Novel Pathogen, Patient Transport, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, Respiratory Pathogen, SARS, Special Pathogens, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: ASPR TRACIE
  Subject: Emergency Medical Services
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2023-06
  Description: ASPR TRACIE Transport playbook: This playbook synthesizes multiple sources of information in a single planning document addressing the full spectrum of infectious agents to create a concise reference resource for emergency medical services (EMS)…

• ASPR TRACIE SARS/MERS

  Tags Federal, Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, Isolate, Lab, Laboratory, MERS-CoV, Patient Care, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Public Health, Quarantine, R-IPC, Respiratory Pathogen, SARS, Specimen Collection
  Creator: ASPR TRACIE
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-08
  Description: SARS/MERS | Technical Resources | TRACIE
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  APHL Public Health Laboratory Risk Assessment Template for EBV

  Tags Ebola, Example, Lab, Laboratory, R-Lab, Templates
  Creator: Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2014
  Description: Template for Public Health Laboratory Risk Assessment for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Testing

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  Identification of acutely sick people and facial cues of sickness

  Tags Example, Patient Care, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Staff Support, Staffing
  Creator: Axelsson, John, Tina Sundelin, Mats J. Olsson, Kimmo Sorjonen, Charlotte Axelsson, Julie Lasselin, and Mats Lekander.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-03
  Description: Detection and avoidance of sick individuals have been proposed as essential components in a behavioural defence against disease, limiting the risk of contamination.

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• Healthcare Workers’ Strategies for Doffing Personal Protective Equipment

  Tags Donning and Doffing, Gloves, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PM, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Baloh, Jure, Heather Schacht Reisinger, Kimberly Dukes, Jaqueline Pereira da Silva, Hugh P. Salehi, Melissa Ward, Emily E. Chasco, Priyadarshini R. Pennathur, and Loreen Herwaldt.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-01
  Description: Personal protective equipment (PPE) helps protect healthcare workers (HCWs) from pathogens and prevents cross-contamination.
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  One month follow up of a neonate born to a mother who survived Ebola virus disease during pregnancy: a case report in the Democratic Republic of Congo

  Tags Neonates, Pediatrics, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, R-T&C, Survivors
  Creator: Baraka NK, Mumbere M, Ndombe E.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-06-18
  Description: The authors report a 1 month follow up of a neonate described as "miracle baby" because she was born Ebola virus disease-free and survived after her mother was infected with Ebola virus during the third trimester of pregnancy.

• Chimpanzee adenovirus type 3 vectored Ebola vaccine: expanding the field

  Tags Ebola, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Bavari, Sina, and Patrick L. Iversen.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-19
  Description: Two phase 2 randomised clinical trials evaluating ChAd3-EBO-Z administered to healthy adults in Cameroon, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal and healthy children in Mali and Senegal are reported by Milagritos Tapia and colleagues in The Lancet Infectious…

• 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 Virus Disease: Clinical Challenges, Recognition, and Management.

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Ebola, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Special Pathogens, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Beam, Elizabeth L., Michelle M. Schwedhelm, Kathleen C. Boulter, Angela M. Vasa, LuAnn Larson, Theodore J. Cieslak, John J. Lowe, Jocelyn J. Herstein, Christopher J. Kratochvil, and Angela L. Hewlett.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-03-26
  Description: The 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak response resulted in many lessons learned about biocontainment patient care, leading to enhanced domestic capabilities for highly infectious and hazardous communicable diseases. Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All…