Browse Items (138 total)

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  NETEC - Online Course - Special Pathogens of Concern

  Tags R-IPC, Respiratory Pathogen, Special Pathogens, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-04-26
  Description: It is critical that healthcare personnel have knowledge of Ebola and other special pathogens of concern and their implications for healthcare delivery in a biocontainment unit (BCU). In this course, learners will be able to describe pathogen-related…
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  Preparing for Serious Communicable Diseases in the United States: What the Ebola Virus Epidemic Has Taught Us

  Tags Antibodies, Contact Transmission, Critical Care, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Epidemic, Infection Prevention and Control, Outbreaks, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Prophylaxis, Public Health, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Varkey, J. B. and B. S. Ribner
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-06-01
  Description: Ending the West Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak required an unprecedented international response.
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  Ebola Virus Disease: Experience and Decision Making for the First Patients outside of Africa

  Tags CONOPS, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Intake, Pre-hospital Transport, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Region 4, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Stephens, D. S., B. S. Ribner, B. D. Gartland, N. R. Feistritzer, M. M. Farley, C. P. Larsen and J. T. Fox
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-07-28
  Description: David Stephens and colleagues describe their experience of treating patients with Ebola virus disease at Emory University in the United States.

• Planning and response to Ebola virus disease: An integrated approach

  Tags Ebola, Emergency Management, EMS, Exercises and Drills, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-Lead, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Staffing, Staffing Model, Training, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Smith, P. W., K. C. Boulter, A. L. Hewlett, C. J. Kratochvil, E. J. Beam, S. G. Gibbs, J. M. Lowe and M. M. Schwedhelm
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-05-01
  Description: The care of patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) requires the application of critical care medicine principles under conditions of stringent infection control precautions.

• 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.

• 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.
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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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  EMS Infectious Disease Playbook

  Tags Airborne Transmission, CONOPS, Contact Transmission, Donning and Doffing, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Emergency Management, EMS, Infection Prevention and Control, MERS-CoV, Novel Pathogen, Patient Transport, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, Respiratory Pathogen, SARS, Special Pathogens, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: ASPR TRACIE
  Subject: Emergency Medical Services
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2023-06
  Description: ASPR TRACIE Transport playbook: This playbook synthesizes multiple sources of information in a single planning document addressing the full spectrum of infectious agents to create a concise reference resource for emergency medical services (EMS)…