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Creator: Mancia, Giuseppe, Federico Rea, Monica Ludergnani, Giovanni Apolone, and Giovanni Corrao.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-01
Description: A potential association between the use of angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs) and angiotensin-converting–enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and the risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has not been well studied. -
Creator: Reynolds, Harmony R., Samrachana Adhikari, Claudia Pulgarin, Andrea B. Troxel, Eduardo Iturrate, Stephen B. Johnson, Anaïs Hausvater, Jonathan D. Newman, Jeffrey S. Berger, Sripal Bangalore, Stuart D. Katz, Glenn I. Fishman, Dennis Kunichoff, Yu…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-01
Description: There is concern about the potential of an increased risk related to medications that act on the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system in patients exposed to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), because the viral receptor is angiotensin-converting… -
Creator: Vaduganathan, Muthiah, Orly Vardeny, Thomas Michel, John J. V. McMurray, Marc A. Pfeffer, and Scott D. Solomon.
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-23
Description: The renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS) is an elegant cascade of vasoactive peptides that orchestrate key processes in human physiology. -
Creator: WHO Solidarity Trial Consortium
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-12-02
Description: World Health Organization expert groups recommended mortality trials of four repurposed antiviral drugs — remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir, and interferon beta-1a — in patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). -
Creator: Yager, Phoebe H., Kimberly A. Whalen, and Brian M. Cummings.
Subject: Physical Infrastructure
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-15
Description: Massachusetts quickly followed New York in becoming an epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, but just a handful of infected children required hospitalization. On April 2, 2020, the Massachusetts General Hospital incident command team determined that no…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.
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Creator: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [National Institutes of Health] NIH (NIAID)
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-01-04
Description: The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa was the largest in history, with nearly 28,700 cases and more than 11,300 deaths. As local and international healthcare workers responded to the outbreak, the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and… -
Creator: Mello, Michelle M., Govind Persad, and Douglas B. White.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-19
Description: In times of emergency, many legal strictures can flex. For example, to enable hospitals to respond to Covid-19, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently waived a swath of federal regulatory requirements. -
Creator: Tong, P. S., A. S. Kale, K. Ng, A. P. Loke, M. A. Choolani, C. L. Lim, Y. H. Chan, Y. S. Chong, P. A. Tambyah, and E. L. Yong.
Subject: Personnel Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-11-16
Description: Outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases have led to guidelines recommending the routine use of N95 respirators for healthcare workers, many of whom are women of childbearing age. The respiratory effects of prolonged respirator use on pregnant women… -
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: 2019-10
Description: Aeromedical evacuation (AE) is a challenging process, further complicated when a patient has a highly hazardous communicable disease (HHCD). -
Creator: U.S. Senate, Committee on Appropriations
Subject: General
Item Type: Video
Date Last Updated: 2019-03-14
Description: Agenda: Hearing to review the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other emerging health threats.