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Creator: Herstein, Jocelyn J., Aurora B. Le, Lily A. McNulty, Sean A. Buehler, Paul D. Biddinger, Angela L. Hewlett, John J. Lowe, and Shawn G. Gibbs.
Subject: Physical Infrastructure
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-02-05
Description: In 2014, 56 US hospitals were designated as Ebola treatment centers (ETCs). ETCs had minimum augmented capability requirements for Ebola virus disease care, including for staffing and training. We sought to identify current ETC staffing challenges…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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Creator: Herstein, Jocelyn J., Aurora B. Le, Lily A. McNulty, Sean A. Buehler, Paul D. Biddinger, Angela L. Hewlett, John J. Lowe, and Shawn G. Gibbs.
Subject: Physical Infrastructure
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-17
Description: We surveyed 56 Ebola treatment centers (ETCs) in the United States and identified costs incurred since 2014 ($1.76 million/ETC) and sustainability strategies.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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Creator: Yager, Phoebe H., Kimberly A. Whalen, and Brian M. Cummings.
Subject: Physical Infrastructure
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-15
Description: On April 2, 2020, the Massachusetts General Hospital incident command team determined that no pediatric patients at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC), a hospital within a hospital, would use a ventilator, given the presence of other…Conservation strategies: This resource contains recommendations facilitating conservation of equipment and supplies during contingency (expected shortages) and crisis (known shortages) capacities and should not be applied as guidance when conventional capacities are available.
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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Creator: Borromeo Flinn, Jade, Jesse J. Benza, Lauren M. Sauer, Christopher Sulmonte, Noreen A. Hynes, and Brian T. Garibaldi.
Subject: Physical Infrastructure
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-06-17
Description: The biocontainment unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital is a specially designed, inactive high-level isolation unit designated to care for patients infected with high-consequence pathogens. The unit team designed a facility-specific readiness scale and…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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Creator: Farhad Memarzadeh, ASHE-FGI monograph
Subject: Physical Infrastructure
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2013
Description: Current recommended ventilation rates for health care facilities are not always based on hard data, but on experience. In this joint ASHE-FGI monograph, Farhad Memarzadeh, PhD, PE, looks at research on hospitals, schools, aircraft, and other vehicles…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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Creator: Isakov, A., A. Jamison, W. Miles and B. Ribner
Subject: Pre-Hospital
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2014-12-02
Description: Health care workers (HCWs) in the emergency medical services (EMS) and hospital settings often encounter patients infected with dangerous communicable diseases. -
Creator: Isakov, A., W. Miles, S. Gibbs, J. Lowe, A. Jamison and R. Swansiger
Subject: Pre-Hospital
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-09-01
Description: The foundation of safe care for patients with confirmed or suspected Ebola virus disease is effective infection control practice, which requires implementation of appropriate administrative policies, work practices, and environmental controls,… -
Creator: Lowe, J. J., K. C. Jelden, P. J. Schenarts, L. E. Rupp, K. J. Hawes, B. M. Tysor, R. G. Swansiger, S. S. Schwedhelm, P. W. Smith and S. G. Gibbs
Subject: Pre-Hospital
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-06-01
Description: The Nebraska Biocontainment Unit through the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, recently received patients with confirmed Ebola virus from West Africa. -
Creator: Coignard-Biehler, H., A. Isakov, and J. Stephenson
Subject: Pre-hospital
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-08
Description: Although the epidemic is largely confined to West Africa, most Western countries where there is a possible risk of imported EVD have developed guidelines and procedures for the transport of confirmed or suspected cases of EVD. Specific… -
Creator: Gibbs, Shawn G., Jocelyn J. Herstein, Aurora B. Le, Elizabeth L. Beam, Theodore J. Cieslak, James V. Lawler, Joshua L. Santarpia, Terry L. Stentz, Kelli R. Kopocis-Herstein, Chandran Achutan, Gary W. Carter, and John J. Lowe.
Subject: Pre-Hospital
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-05
Description: Circumstances exist that call for the aeromedical evacuation high-level containment transport (AE-HLCT) of patients with highly hazardous communicable diseases.
