Browse Items (24 total)

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  Bio Isolation Transfer Card (BIT) - Emory Example

  Tags Biosafety, EMS, Internal Transport, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-IIT, Waste Management
  Creator: Emory
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Checklist
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-31
  Description: Emory University Hospital (EUH), Serious Communicable Diseases Unit (SCDU), Bio Isolation Transfer Card (BIT),
  EMS Transport to EUH SCDU
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  Interim Laboratory Biosafety Guidelines for Handling and Processing Specimens Associated with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – Version 2

  Tags Biosafety, Example, Lab, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, MERS-CoV, R-Lab
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2019-08-02
  Description: To date, we don’t fully understand the pathogenic potential and transmission dynamics of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Until more information becomes available, precautions should be taken in collecting and handling…

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  Design Strategies for Biocontainment Units to Reduce Risk During Doffing of High-level Personal Protective Equipment.

  Tags Biosafety, Donning and Doffing, Ebola, Isolation/Biocontainment, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Physical Infrastructure, R-PhIn
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: Physical Infrastructure
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-09-13
  Description: Few data exist to guide the physical design of biocontainment units, particularly the doffing area.

• Patients under investigation for Ebola virus disease in the United States: hospital preparedness planning and alternate care facilities

  Tags Biosafety, Bioseal, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Preparedness, R-IIT, R-Res&Pub, R-T&E, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Bogucki, S., and A. Isakov.
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-05
  Description: Many months into a still-worsening epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in three West African nations, the U.S. health care system was challenged by its first undiagnosed EVD patient presenting to a hospital emergency department (ED) in Dallas,…
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  Biocontainment Units: Moving to the Next Phase of Evolution

  Tags Biosafety, R-PhIn, R-Res&Pub, Research
  Creator: Mark G. Kortepeter and Theodore J. Cieslak
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-02-06
  Description: The concept and belief in the idea of “biocontainment” has undergone significant evolution during the past 20 years.
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  NETEC - Online Course - Special Pathogens of Concern: Ebola Virus Disease

  Tags Biosafety, Ebola, Isolate, R-IPC, Special Pathogens
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-09-10
  Description: It is critical that healthcare personnel have knowledge of Ebola and the implications for healthcare delivery in a biocontainment unit (BCU). In this course, learners will be able to describe pathogen-related factors that may warrant treatment in a…
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  NETEC - Online Course - Internal Communication

  Tags Biosafety, Communications, CONOPS, R-Lead, R-PM, Special Pathogens, Staff Support, Staffing, Staffing Model
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Personnel Management
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-09-18
  Description: This course will provide information on communication considerations when a facility is notified they will be receiving a patient with Ebola or other special pathogen. This will include information on communicating with staff, patients already in…

• Threading the NEIDL (National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories)

  Tags Basic Science Research, Biosafety, Ebola, Lab, Laboratory, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: American Society for Microbiology
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-02
  Description: This video explores the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) security, a Biological Safety Level (BSL)-4 safety suit, and the facility.

• Online Audiocasts From the SHEA/CDC ORTP (Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Outbreak Response Training Program) Regional Training Workshop

  Tags Behavioral Health, Biosafety, Clinical Care Guidelines, Communications, CONOPS, Diagnosis, Ebola, Emergency Management, Epidemic, Exercises and Drills, MERS-CoV, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Preparedness, Public Health, R-T&E, Special Pathogens, Therapeutics, Training, Treatment and Care, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Subject: General
  Item Type: In Person Course
  Date Last Updated: 2023-10-18
  Description: These audiocasts, recorded at the SHEA/CDC ORTP Regional Training Workshop, discuss successes and failures of past infectious disease outbreaks and offer insights into the key steps involved in preparing your facility for the next high-consequence…

• Design Strategies to Improve Healthcare Worker Safety in Biocontainment Units: Learning from Ebola Preparedness

  Tags Biosafety, Example, Occupational Health, R-Lead, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Staff Support, Staffing, Trained Observer
  Creator: DuBose, J. R., Z. Matić, M. F. W. Sala, J. M. Mumma, C. S. Kraft, L. M. Casanova, K. Erukunuakpor, F. T. Durso, V. L. Walsh, P. Shah, C. M. Zimring and J. T. Jacob.
  Subject: Personnel Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-06-18
  Description: To identify ways that the built environment may support or disrupt safe doffing of personal protective equipment (PPE) in biocontainment units (BCU).

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