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Creator: NETEC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2025-12-03
Description: This guidance document provides Level 3 and Level 4 facilities with practical recommendations for establishing and managing anterooms or designated anteareas when caring for patients with special pathogens. It clarifies key terminology, outlines… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: General
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2025-08-13
Description: This guideline document on Effective Approaches to High-Level Isolation Unit (HLIU) Twinning will provide HLIUs interested in the activity with a roadmap of ideas and options to design and facilitate a Twinning experience that will provide the most… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Infection Prevention
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2025-08-28
Description: The HCID Airborne Infection Isolation Room Downtime Checklist is designed to help healthcare facilities prepare for and respond to Airborne Infection Isolation Room (AIIR) disruptions during the care of patients with suspected or confirmed special… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2024-08-20
Description: This document provides essential guidance for managing Category A waste in special pathogen isolation scenarios. It outlines key waste management objectives including effective packaging securement of packaged waste and engaging relevant partners to… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Personnel Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2022-12-21
Description: To support newly created State or Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Centers (RESPTCs) as they define their leadership structure, the Biocontainment (BCU) Leadership Workgroup, established by the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Video
Date Last Updated: 2022-12-19
Description: The information in this video is evolving, and updates to the content will come out in the future. Please check back for the most updated information. Objectives: In this video presentation, we will discuss: Epidemiology of Sudan Ebolavirus and the… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Training and Exercises
Item Type: Checklist
Date Last Updated: 2022-10-10
Description: Biocontainment Unit Working Group Core Competency / Competencies chart diagram. -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Training and Exercises
Item Type: Checklist
Date Last Updated: 2022-10-10
Description: This document serves as a training and education tool for centers who are interested in becoming or are currently a special pathogens treatment center to frame training plans. By utilizing the recommendations, curriculum can be developed to include… -
Creator: Theodore J Cieslak, Jocelyn J Herstein, Mark G Kortepeter, Angela L Hewlett
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-08-22
Description: Although the concept of high-level containment care (HLCC or ‘biocontainment’), dates back to 1969, the 2014–2016 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) brought with it a renewed emphasis on the use of specialized HLCC units in the care of patients… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2022-06-13
Description: This blog post covers infection control, biocontainment, PPE, and related topics for Lassa Fever patients. Because of the high degree of mortality associated with infection, patients infected with or suspected to be infected with Lassa virus should…
