Browse Items (365 total)

• Patient Isolation and Transportation - ISO-POD Update: AirBoss Defense Advantage

  Tags Infection Prevention and Control, Isopod, Patient Transport, Portable Isolation Unit, Protocol, R-IIT, R-PreH, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine / Heroes
  Subject: Pre-Hospital
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2017-11-27
  Description: An ISOPOD is a device used in the transportation of a potentially infectious patient, either internally at a facility, or from one facility to another. In this video Brittany Nordby, RN, BSN, EMT, Project Coordinator for HEROES, provides an…
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  Ebola Virus Persistence in Semen of Male Survivors

  Tags Ebola, Follow up, Laboratory Testing, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, Specimen Collection, Specimen Handling, Survivors, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Uyeki, T. M., B. R. Erickson, S. Brown, A. K. McElroy, D. Cannon, A. Gibbons, T. Sealy, M. H. Kainulainen, A. J. Schuh, C. S. Kraft, A. K. Mehta, G. M. Lyon, 3rd, J. B. Varkey, B. S. Ribner, R. T. Ellison, 3rd, E. Carmody, G. J. Nau, C. Spiropoulou,…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-06-15
  Description: We investigated the duration of Ebola virus (EBOV) RNA and infectious EBOV in semen specimens of 5 Ebola virus disease (EVD) survivors.
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  Persistence of Ebola Virus in Ocular Fluid during Convalescence

  Tags Ebola, Eye/Ocular Health, Follow up, Infection Prevention and Control, Laboratory Testing, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Specimen Collection, Specimen Handling, Survivors
  Creator: Varkey, J. B., J. G. Shantha, I. Crozier, C. S. Kraft, G. M. Lyon, A. K. Mehta, G. Kumar, J. R. Smith, M. H. Kainulainen, S. Whitmer, U. Stroher, T. M. Uyeki, B. S. Ribner and S. Yeh
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-06-18
  Description: Among the survivors of Ebola virus disease (EVD), complications that include uveitis can develop during convalescence, although the incidence and pathogenesis of EVD-associated uveitis are unknown.This article was corrected in volume 372 on page…

• Advancing Preparedness for Highly Hazardous Contagious Diseases: Admitting 10 Simulated Patients with MERS-CoV

  Tags Exercises and Drills, Intake, MERS-CoV, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Public Health, R-T&E, Respiratory Pathogen, Special Pathogens, Staffing, Staffing Model, Surge, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Vasa, A., P. W. Smith, M. Schwedhelm, T. J. Cieslak, J. Lowe, C. J. Kratochvil, E. L. Beam, K. Boulter and A. Hewlett
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-08-01
  Description: The Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016 highlighted the need for the development of a more robust healthcare infrastructure in the United States to provide isolation care for patients infected with a highly hazardous contagious disease.

• Emergency Department Processes for the Evaluation and Management of Persons Under Investigation for Ebola Virus Disease

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Diagnosis, Ebola, Emergency Department, Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, Isolate, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-IIT, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Travel Screening, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Wadman, M. C., S. S. Schwedhelm, S. Watson, J. Swanhorst, S. G. Gibbs, J. J. Lowe, P. C. Iwen, A. K. Hayes, S. Needham, D. W. Johnson, D. J. Kalin, W. G. Zeger and R. L. Muelleman
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-09-01
  Description: Due to the recent Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, patients with epidemiologic risk for Ebola virus disease and symptoms consistent with Ebola virus disease are presenting to emergency departments (EDs) and clinics in the United States.
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  Crisis Standards of Care Resources

  Tags Children, Crisis Standards of Care, Example, Pediatrics, R-SP, Standard of Care, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Western Regional Alliance for Pediatric Emergency Management (WRAP-EM)
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2021
  Description: A site including several resources for consideration in your crisis standards of care planning, and links to recent Crisis Standards of Care Open discussions hosted by the Eastern Great Lakes Pediatric Consortium for Disaster Response and WRAP-EM.

  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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  Public health interventions in pandemics and epidemics

  Tags Emergency Management, Epidemic, Flu, Influenza, Pandemic, Public Health, R-EM
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-07-05
  Description: The 21st century has witnessed changes - travel and trade, urbanization, environmental degradation and other trends that increase the risk of disease outbreaks, their spread and amplification into epidemics and pandemics. At the same time, the…

• Consultation on Monitored Emergency Use of Unregistered and Investigational Interventions (MEURI) for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)

  Tags Ebola, Prophylaxis, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2018-08-27
  Description: A group of independent scientific experts were convened by the WHO for the purpose of updating the May 2018 statement on MEURI for Ebola virus disease (EVD) during the current outbreak, 27 August 2018. (1)

• Preliminary results on the efficacy of rVSV-ZEBOV-GP Ebola vaccine using the ring vaccination strategy in the control of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: an example of integration of research into epidemic response.

  Tags Clinical Trial, Ebola, Epidemic, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Research, Research Design, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-04-12
  Description: ABOUT THIS ANALYSIS: DRC’s national research institute, the Institut National pour la Recherche Biomedicale (INRB) and WHO have conducted a preliminary analysis of the data being collected from the ring vaccination protocol. The analysis summarized…

• Surface Sampling of MERS-CoV in Health Care Settings: A Practical “How to” Protocol for Health Care and Public Health Professionals

  Tags Coronavirus, Infection Prevention and Control, Lab, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, MERS-CoV, Occupational Exposure, Public Health, R-IPC
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2019-06
  Description: WHO Draft MERS-CoV Surface sampling of MERS-CoV in health care settings:A practical “how to” protocol for health care and public health professionals, June 2019