Browse Items (419 total)

• Does triage to critical care during a pandemic necessarily result in more survivors?

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Utley, Martin, Christina Pagel, Mark J. Peters, Andy Petros, and Paula Lister.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2011-01
  Description: The 2009 H1N1 pandemic reinforced the need for a planned response to increased demand for critical care.

• Worst case: rethinking tertiary triage protocols in pandemics and other health emergencies

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Pandemic, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  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.

• An observational cohort study of triage for critical care provision during pandemic influenza: ‘clipboard physicians’ or ‘evidenced based medicine’?

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Flu, Influenza, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Guest, T., G. Tantam, N. Donlin, K. Tantam, H. McMillan, and A. Tillyard.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2009-10-09
  Description: We assessed the impact of a United Kingdom government‐recommended triage process, designed to guide the decision to admit patients to intensive care during an influenza pandemic, on patients in a teaching hospital intensive care unit.

• Ready or Not, Patients Will Present: Improving Urban Pandemic Preparedness.

  Tags Pandemic, Preparedness, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen
  Creator: Madad, Syra, Joshua Moskovitz, Matthew R. Boyce, Nicholas V. Cagliuso, and Rebecca Katz.
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-16
  Description: Over the past century, society has achieved great gains in medicine, public health, and health-care infrastructure, particularly in the areas of vaccines, antibiotics, sanitation, intensive care and medical technology.

• Ebola virus disease in DR Congo

  Tags Ebola, Outbreaks, Outcomes, R-Gen, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Burki, Talha.
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-04
  Description: As the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo is ending, there are important lessons to be learnt. Talha Burki reports.

• Safety and immunogenicity of a modified vaccinia virus Ankara vector vaccine candidate for Middle East respiratory syndrome: an open-label, phase 1 trial

  Tags MERS-CoV, R-Lab, R-Res&Pub, Vaccine Study
  Creator: Koch, Till, Christine Dahlke, Anahita Fathi, Alexandra Kupke, Verena Krähling, Nisreen M. A. Okba, Sandro Halwe, Cornelius Rohde, Markus Eickmann, Asisa Volz, Thomas Hesterkamp, Alen Jambrecina, Saskia Borregaard, My L. Ly, Madeleine E. Zinser,…
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-04-20
  Description: The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) causes a respiratory disease with a case fatality rate of up to 35%.

• Pregnancy and breastfeeding in the context of Ebola: a systematic review

  Tags Ebola, Labor and Delivery, Neonates, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, R-T&C, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Foeller, Megan E., Carolina Carvalho Ribeiro do Valle, Timothy M. Foeller, Olufemi T. Oladapo, Elin Roos, and Anna E. Thorson.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-05-06
  Description: The outbreaks of Ebola virus between 2014 and 2020 have drawn attention to knowledge gaps related to Ebola virus disease in pregnant women. The aim of this study was to systematically evaluate available data on pregnant and lactating women with acute…

• New WHO guidelines on the management of pregnancy and breastfeeding in the context of Ebola

  Tags Ebola, Guidance Document, Labor and Delivery, Neonates, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, R-T&C, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Thorson, Anna E., Megan E. Foeller, Severine Caluwaerts, Carolina Ribeiro do Valle, Ian Crozier, Gibrilla Deen, Devika Dixit, Chrissy Godwin, Pius Okong, Rachel Esteves Soeiro, João Paulo Sousa, Michel van Herp, Maurice Bucagu, Alejandro Costa, Megan…
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-05-06
  Description: Providing care for pregnant and breastfeeding women with Ebola virus disease is complex and requires expertise in infectious diseases, obstetrics, and gynaecology.

• Vaccine development during global epidemics: the Zika experience

  Tags Epidemic, Outbreaks, Pandemic, R-Lab, R-Res&Pub, Vaccine Study
  Creator: Castanha, Priscila M. S., and Ernesto T. A. Marques.
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-05-06
  Description: The North and South American continents experienced a major epidemic of Zika virus in 2015–16, which infected up to 70% of the population in some areas.

• Ebola article

  Tags Ebola, R-Gen, R-Res&Pub, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Feldmann, Heinz, Armand Sprecher, and Thomas W. Geisbert.
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-05-07
  Description: Ebola virus (EBOV) was the best-known and most extensively studied member of the Filoviridae family (Mononegavirales order) long before the shattering 2013–2016 West African epidemic. The virologic taxon Filoviridae was defined in 1982 and…