Browse Items (224 total)

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  Containment Wrap Guidelines

  Tags Infection Prevention and Control, Internal Transport, Nebraska Biocontainment Unit (NBU), Patient Transport, Pre-Hospital, Protocol, R-IPC, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2018-08-01
  Description: Policies and Procedures Manual: To provide guidelines for the use of a containment wrap during intra-facility transport; or direct admission from the emergency department to the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit (NBU).
  
  Policy number 1051
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  Autoclave Policy/Procedure

  Tags Autoclave, Infection Prevention and Control, Nebraska Biocontainment Unit (NBU), Protocol, R-IPC, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Waste Management
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine
  Subject: Waste Management
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2021-12
  Description: Policies and Procedures Manual: To prevent patients and healthcare workers from becoming contaminated by any materials used in the NBU.
  
  Policy number 1025
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  Handling Infectious Human Remains (BioSeal System)

  Tags Decedent Management, Decontamination, Equipment and Supplies, Infection Prevention and Control, Nebraska Biocontainment Unit (NBU), Protocol, Public Health, R-DM, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine
  Subject: Decedent Management
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2021-03
  Description: Policies and Procedures Manual: To provide a safe method for the removal of infectious human remains from the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit (NBU).
  
  Policy number 1005
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  Bodily Fluid / Other Liquid Spills / Sharps Cleanup

  Tags Infection Prevention and Control, Nebraska Biocontainment Unit (NBU), Protocol, R-IPC, Spills, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2018-03-01
  Description: Policies and Procedures Manual: To define a process for clean-up, disinfection and disposal of bodily fluid and other fluid spills, including those that contain sharps.
  
  Policy number 1011

• Kansas Highly Infectious Disease and Pandemic Plan

  Tags Communications, CONOPS, Decontamination, Ebola, Emergency Management, EMS, Epidemic, Federal, Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, Isolate, Lab, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, Medical Surveillance, Outbreaks, Patient Transport, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Public Health, Quarantine, R-EM, Region 7, Specimen Collection, Specimen Handling, Specimen Transport, Temperature Monitoring, Waste Management
  Creator: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2023-01
  Description: The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) developed a preparedness and response plan following the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa in response to the possibility of cases affecting Kansas. This "Kansas Ebola Virus Preparedness and…

• Ebola Virus Disease

  Tags Diagnosis, Ebola, Epidemiology, Infection Prevention and Control, Public Health, Quarantine, R-IPC, Treatment and Care
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2018-02-12
  Description: WHO Ebola Virus Disease fact sheet.

• Health Sector Resilience Checklist for High-Consequence Infectious Diseases

  Tags Communications, Decontamination, Ebola, Emergency Management, EMS, Epidemic, High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID), Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, Isolate, Lab, Laboratory, Medical Surveillance, Outbreaks, Patient Transport, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Public Health, Quarantine, R-EM, Special Pathogens, Temperature Monitoring
  Creator: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Checklist
  Date Last Updated: 2017-05-24
  Description: Using lessons learned from treating Ebola patients in the US during the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, this paper works to develop an evidence-informed checklist that outlines action steps.

• Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare

  Tags Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Smallpox
  Creator: Office of the Surgeon General, Borden Institute, US Army Medical Department Center and School, Health Readiness Center of Excellence
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-09-05
  Description: This is an open source text book for military medical educational use.
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  Marburg Virus Disease

  Tags Epidemiology, Infection Prevention and Control, Marburg, R-IPC, R-T&C, Special Pathogens, Treatment and Care, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: United Kingdom Department of Health
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2021-08-12
  Description: Gov.uk Marburg guidelines. From: Public Health England Published: 5 September 2014 Marburg virus is one of two viruses of the Filovirus family which, along with Ebola virus, can cause a severe and fatal haemorrhagic fever (VHF).

• Identification and Characterization of Failures in Infectious Agent Transmission Precaution Practices in Hospitals

  Tags Contact Transmission, Donning and Doffing, Droplet Transmission, Infection Prevention and Control, Occupational Exposure, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PM, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Staff Support, Staffing
  Creator: Sarah L. Krein, PhD, RN; Jeanmarie Mayer, MD; Molly Harrod, PhD; Lauren E. Weston, MPH; Lynn Gregory, NP; Laura Petersen, MHSA; Matthew H. Samore, MD; Frank A. Drews, PhD
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-08-01
  Description: Using personal protective equipment (PPE) and transmission-based precautions are primary strategies for reducing the transmission of infectious agents.