Browse Items (29 total)

• An observational cohort study of triage for critical care provision during pandemic influenza: ‘clipboard physicians’ or ‘evidenced based medicine’?

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Flu, Influenza, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Guest, T., G. Tantam, N. Donlin, K. Tantam, H. McMillan, and A. Tillyard.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2009-10-09
  Description: We assessed the impact of a United Kingdom government‐recommended triage process, designed to guide the decision to admit patients to intensive care during an influenza pandemic, on patients in a teaching hospital intensive care unit.

• Worst case: rethinking tertiary triage protocols in pandemics and other health emergencies

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Pandemic, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Fink, Sheri L.
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2010
  Description: Demand for critical care resources could vastly outstrip supply in an influenza pandemic or other health emergency, which has led expert groups to propose altered standards for triage and resource allocation.

• Does triage to critical care during a pandemic necessarily result in more survivors?

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Utley, Martin, Christina Pagel, Mark J. Peters, Andy Petros, and Paula Lister.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2011-01
  Description: The 2009 H1N1 pandemic reinforced the need for a planned response to increased demand for critical care.

• Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Guidelines on the Management of Critically Ill Adults with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Critical Care, R-T&C, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-20
  Description: SCCM has released its Surviving Sepsis Campaign COVID-19 guidelines to manage critically ill adults with COVID-19 in the intensive care unit (ICU). This guideline is expected to be updated as new evidence becomes available.
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  Severe Febrile Respiratory Illnesses As a Cause of Mass Critical Care

  Tags Critical Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Respiratory Pathogen, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Sandrock, Christian E.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2008-01
  Description: Febrile respiratory illnesses with respiratory failure are one of the most common reasons for admission to the intensive care unit.

• Ebola virus disease and critical illness

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Leligdowicz, A., W. A. Fischer, 2nd, T. M. Uyeki, T. E. Fletcher, N. K. Adhikari, G. Portella, F. Lamontagne, C. Clement, S. T. Jacob, L. Rubinson, A. Vanderschuren, J. Hajek, S. Murthy, M. Ferri, I. Crozier, E. Ibrahima, M. C. Lamah, J. S.…
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-07-29
  Description: As of 20 May 2016 there have been 28,646 cases and 11,323 deaths resulting from the West African Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak reported to the World Health Organization.

• Ebola: Prise en charge clinique des cas d'Ebola

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Critical Care, Ebola, Français, French, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, Therapeutics
  
  Subject: Contenu Français
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018
  Description: Online course created by the WHO. This course is also available in English.

• Ebola: Clinical management of Ebola virus disease

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-07-05
  Description: This comprehensive intermediate level course is for clinicians caring for patients with suspected or confirmed Ebola virus disease (EVD). Modules provide information on screening and triage, infection prevention and control, laboratory diagnostics,…
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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.