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• Care of patients with Ebola virus disease

  Tags Infection Prevention and Control, Isolate, Nursing, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Staff Support, Staffing, Training, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Feistritzer, N. R., C. Hill, S. Vanairsdale, and J. Gentry
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-11
  Description: Caring for patients with Ebola virus disease requires strict biosafety protocols to eliminate exposure and ensure containment. Training and competency verification were critical to creation of a safe environment for nursing staff involved in the…

• Ebola article

  Tags Ebola, R-Gen, R-Res&Pub, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Feldmann, Heinz, Armand Sprecher, and Thomas W. Geisbert.
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-05-07
  Description: Ebola virus (EBOV) was the best-known and most extensively studied member of the Filoviridae family (Mononegavirales order) long before the shattering 2013–2016 West African epidemic. The virologic taxon Filoviridae was defined in 1982 and…
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  Implementation of an educational program for nursing students amidst the Ebola virus disease epidemic

  Tags Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Just in Time training (JIT), Nursing, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-T&E, Training
  Creator: Ferranti, E. P., L. Wands, K. A. Yeager, B. Baker, M. K. Higgins, J. L. Wold and S. B. Dunbar
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-08
  Description: Implementation of an educational program for nursing students amidst the Ebola virus disease epidemic

• 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.
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  Ebola virus disease: an update on post-exposure prophylaxis.

  Tags Ebola, Example, Immunology, Occupational Health, Prophylaxis, R-PM, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Fischer, W. A. N., P. Vetter, D. G. Bausch, T. Burgess, R. T. Davey, Jr., R. Fowler, F. G. Hayden, P. B. Jahrling, A. C. Kalil, D. L. Mayers, A. K. Mehta, T. M. Uyeki and M. Jacobs
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-11-15
  Description: The massive outbreak of Ebola virus disease in west Africa between 2013 and 2016 resulted in intense efforts to evaluate the efficacy of several specific countermeasures developed through years of preclinical work, including the first clinical trials…

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• Validation and Application of Models to Predict Facemask Influenza Contamination in Healthcare Settings

  Tags Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Mask, Masks, Occupational Exposure, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Fisher, Edward M., John D. Noti, William G. Lindsley, Francoise M. Blachere, and Ronald E. Shaffer.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-08
  Description: Facemasks are part of the hierarchy of interventions used to reduce the transmission of respiratory pathogens by providing a barrier.
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  Development of a Pediatric Ebola Predictive Score, Sierra Leone

  Tags Diagnosis, Ebola, Epidemiology, Outbreaks, Pediatrics, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Fitzgerald F, Wing K, Naveed A, Gbessay M, Ross JCG, Checchi F, Youkee D, Jalloh MB, Baion DE, Mustapha A, Jah H, Lako S, Oza S, Boufkhed S, Feury R, Bielicki J, Williamson E, Gibb DM, Klein N, Sahr F, Yeung S.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-02
  Description: We compared children who were positive for Ebola virus disease (EVD) with those who were negative to derive a pediatric EVD predictor (PEP) score.
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  Administration of Brincidofovir and Convalescent Plasma in a Patient With Ebola Virus Disease

  Tags Antibodies, Ebola, Immunology, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics
  Creator: Florescu, D. F., A. C. Kalil, A. L. Hewlett, A. J. Schuh, U. Stroher, T. M. Uyeki and P. W. Smith
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-09-15
  Description: From 2014 to May 2015, >26 000 Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases were reported from West Africa.

• Pregnancy and breastfeeding in the context of Ebola: a systematic review

  Tags Ebola, Labor and Delivery, Neonates, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, R-T&C, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Foeller, Megan E., Carolina Carvalho Ribeiro do Valle, Timothy M. Foeller, Olufemi T. Oladapo, Elin Roos, and Anna E. Thorson.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-05-06
  Description: The outbreaks of Ebola virus between 2014 and 2020 have drawn attention to knowledge gaps related to Ebola virus disease in pregnant women. The aim of this study was to systematically evaluate available data on pregnant and lactating women with acute…

• Ebola Virus Epidemiology and Evolution in Nigeria.

  Tags Ebola, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub, Virology
  Creator: Folarin OA, Ehichioya D, Schaffner SF, Winnicki SM, Wohl S, Eromon P, West KL, Gladden-Young A, Oyejide NE, Matranga CB, Deme AB, James A, Tomkins-Tinch C, Onyewurunwa K, Ladner JT, Palacios G, Nosamiefan I, Andersen KG, Omilabu S, Park DJ, Yozwiak…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-10-15
  Description: Containment limited the 2014 Nigerian Ebola virus (EBOV) disease outbreak to 20 reported cases and 8 fatalities. We present here clinical data and contact information for at least 19 case patients, and full-length EBOV genome sequences for 12 of the…