Browse Items (224 total)

• EMS & Prehospital

  Tags Donning and Doffing, Emergency Department, Emergency Management, EMS, Infection Prevention and Control, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, R-T&E, Waste
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018
  Description: Past in Person Course Presentation.Course Learning Objectives: Increase healthcare worker knowledge and understanding of serious communicable diseases (smallpox, SARS, MERS, Ebola, novel influenza). Increase understanding of standard and…
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  Facilitator Guide: Decedent Management

  Tags Bioseal, Decedent Management, Infection Prevention and Control, Leadership Toolbox, Other Tools, Patient Transport, R-DM, Training
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Exercise
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-25
  Description: Leadership Toolbox, More Tools: MESL - Master Event Scenario List - Decedent Management
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  Special Pathogen Mystery Drill Toolkit Drill, Functional & Full-Scale Template

  Tags Emergency Management, Exercises and Drills, Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, Intake, Isolate, Mystery Drill, Person Under Investigation (PUI), R-T&E, Templates, Travel Screening
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Exercise
  Date Last Updated: 2018-04-30
  Description: Special Pathogen Mystery Drill Toolkit, Mystery Patient Drill
  Download the zip file from the URL below.
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  Health Care Coalition Special Pathogen [Airborne] Tabletop Exercise Template

  Tags Air Transport, Airborne Transmission, CONOPS, Decontamination, Emergency Management, EMS, Exercises and Drills, Ground Transport, Healthcare Coalition, Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, Intake, Isolate, Patient Transport, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Pre-hospital Transport, R-EM, R-IIT, Templates
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Exercise
  Date Last Updated: 2018-04-30
  Description: Health Care Coalitions - Exercise Materials for Special Pathogens

• A Gap Analysis Survey of US Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) Members to Determine Highly Infectious Disease Training and Education Needs.

  Tags Emergency Department, EMS, Infection Prevention and Control, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-Res&Pub, Training
  Creator: Le, A. B., R. Herron, J. J. Herstein, K. C. Jelden, E. L. Beam, S. G. Gibbs, J. J. Lowe and T. D. Smith 
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-21
  Description: Despite lessons learned from the recent Ebola epidemic, attempts to survey and determine non-health care worker, industry-specific needs to address highly infectious diseases have been minimal.

• U.S. High-Level Isolation Unit Clinical Laboratory Capabilities Update.

  Tags Diagnosis, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolation/Biocontainment, Lab, Laboratorian, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, R-Lab, R-Res&Pub, Special Pathogens, Specimen Handling, Specimen Transport
  Creator: Herstein, J. J., P. C. Iwen, K. C. Jelden, P. D. Biddinger, S. G. Gibbs, A. B. Le, A. L. Hewlett and J. J. Lowe 
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-04
  Description: In late 2014, 56 hospitals in the United States were designated by state and federal public health authorities as specially designed high-level isolation units (HLIUs) equipped with advanced infrastructure, laboratory capabilities, and trained staff…
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  Critical Care for the Patient with Ebola Virus Disease (EBV): The Nebraska Perspective

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Vasa, A., M. Schwedhelm and D. Johnson
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-11-26
  Description: Care for patients with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and other highly infectious diseases is demanding and requires an unwavering commitment to teamwork and stringent infection control measures.
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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.